Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 18 times smaller than Nigeria.
Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 5.53% the size of Nigeria. Meanwhile, the population of Nigeria is ~225.1 million people (219.9 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Nigeria
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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