Country size comparison
compared to
Iran is about 32 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 3,125% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (81.6 million more people live in Iran).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Iran
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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