Country size comparison
compared to
Malawi is about 2.3 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 132% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (15.6 million more people live in Malawi).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Malawi
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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