Costa Rica is about 13 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 7.83% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (33.1 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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