Country size comparison
compared to
Nigeria is about 18 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 1,708% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (219.9 million more people live in Nigeria).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Nigeria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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