Country size comparison
compared to
Gambia is about 4.5 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 22.11% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (2.8 million fewer people live in Gambia).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Gambia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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