Country size comparison

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Saudi Arabia is about 42 times bigger than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, making Saudi Arabia 4,107% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (30.1 million more people live in Saudi Arabia).
This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. Saudi Arabia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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