Country size comparison
compared to
Zambia is about 15 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Zambia is approximately 752,618 sq km, making Zambia 1,373% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (14.4 million more people live in Zambia).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Zambia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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