Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.4 times smaller than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 42.06% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (2.2 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Mississippi
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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