Country size comparison
compared to
Madagascar is about 11 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, making Madagascar 1,049% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (23.0 million more people live in Madagascar).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Madagascar
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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