Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 15 times smaller than Chile.

Chile is approximately 756,102 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 6.76% the size of Chile. Meanwhile, the population of Chile is ~18.4 million people (13.2 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Chile vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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