Country size comparison
compared to
France is about 11 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 979% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (63.1 million more people live in France).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
France
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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