Country size comparison
compared to
Libya is about 34 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 3,343% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (1.9 million more people live in Libya).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Libya
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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