Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 2.8 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 182% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (7.6 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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