Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 54 times smaller than Argentina.

Argentina is approximately 2,780,400 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 1.84% the size of Argentina. Meanwhile, the population of Argentina is ~46.2 million people (41.0 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Argentina vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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