Country size comparison
compared to
Spain is about 10 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, making Spain 889% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (42.0 million more people live in Spain).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Spain
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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