Costa Rica is about 20 times smaller than Egypt.

Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 5.1% the size of Egypt. Meanwhile, the population of Egypt is ~107.8 million people (102.6 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Egypt vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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