Country size comparison

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Democratic Republic of the Congo is about 46 times bigger than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Democratic Republic of the Congo is approximately 2,344,858 sq km, making Democratic Republic of the Congo 4,489% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (103.2 million more people live in Democratic Republic of the Congo).
This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. Democratic Republic of the Congo uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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