Country size comparison

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Egypt is about 20 times bigger than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, making Egypt 1,860% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (102.6 million more people live in Egypt).
This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. Egypt uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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