Country size comparison
compared to
Djibouti is about 2.2 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Djibouti is approximately 23,200 sq km, making Djibouti 45.4% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (4.2 million fewer people live in Djibouti).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Djibouti
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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