Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 5 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km,
while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making
Costa Rica 19.21% the size of Western Sahara.
Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people
(4.6 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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