Country size comparison
compared to
Sierra Leone is about 1.4 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 40% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (3.5 million more people live in Sierra Leone).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Sierra Leone
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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