Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 24 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 4.19% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (52.3 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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