Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 29 times smaller than Alaska.
Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 3.45% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (4.5 million more people live in Costa Rica).
Tip:
This to-scale comparison of
Alaska
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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