Country size comparison
Costa Rica
compared to
Mauritania
Costa Rica is about 20 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 4.96% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (1.0 million more people live in Costa Rica).
We have positioned the outline of Mauritania near the middle of Costa Rica.
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This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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