Country size comparison
compared to
Belgium is about 1.7 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km,
while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making
Belgium 59.74% the size of Costa Rica.
Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people
(6.6 million more people live in Belgium).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Belgium
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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