Country size comparison
compared to
Netherlands is about 1.2 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 81.3% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (12.2 million more people live in Netherlands).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Netherlands
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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