Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 12 times smaller than Somalia.
Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km,
while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making
Costa Rica 8.01% the size of Somalia.
Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people
(7.2 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Somalia
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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