Country size comparison
compared to
Zimbabwe is about 8 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Zimbabwe is approximately 390,757 sq km, making Zimbabwe 665% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (9.9 million more people live in Zimbabwe).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Zimbabwe
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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