Country size comparison
compared to
Niger is about 25 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, making Niger 2,379% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (19.3 million more people live in Niger).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Niger
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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