Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 3.7 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 267% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (16.4 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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