Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 5 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 421% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (4.6 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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