Costa Rica is about 2.2 times smaller than Benin.

Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 45.37% the size of Benin. Meanwhile, the population of Benin is ~13.8 million people (8.6 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Benin vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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