Country size comparison

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Argentina is about 54 times bigger than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Argentina is approximately 2,780,400 sq km, making Argentina 5,341% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (41.0 million more people live in Argentina).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. Argentina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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