Country size comparison
compared to
Rwanda is about 1.9 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 51.54% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (8.0 million more people live in Rwanda).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Rwanda
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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