Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 1.4 times smaller than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 71.23% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (3.5 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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