Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 2.4 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 136% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (20.8 million more people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
North Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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