Country size comparison

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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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