Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 24 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 2,286% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (52.3 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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