Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 6 times smaller than Arizona.
Arizona is approximately 294,312 sq km,
while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making
Costa Rica 17.36% the size of Arizona.
Meanwhile, the population of Arizona is ~6.4 million people
(1.2 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Arizona
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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