Country size comparison
compared to
Massachusetts is about 2.5 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 39.74% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (1.3 million more people live in Massachusetts).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Massachusetts
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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