Country size comparison
compared to
Mexico is about 38 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Mexico is approximately 1,964,375 sq km, making Mexico 3,744% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (123.9 million more people live in Mexico).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Mexico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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