Country size comparison
compared to
Mali is about 24 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, making Mali 2,327% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (15.5 million more people live in Mali).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Mali
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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