Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 4.8 times smaller than United Kingdom.

United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 20.98% the size of United Kingdom. Meanwhile, the population of United Kingdom is ~67.8 million people (62.6 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of United Kingdom vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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