Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 10 times smaller than Spain.
Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 10.11% the size of Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~47.2 million people (42.0 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Spain
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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