Country size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is about 2.4 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 138% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (2.2 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Mississippi
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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