Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 20 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 1,917% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (1.0 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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