Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.5 times smaller than Nicaragua.
Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 39.2% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (1.1 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Nicaragua
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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