Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 5 times smaller than Gabon.

Gabon is approximately 267,667 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 19.09% the size of Gabon. Meanwhile, the population of Gabon is ~2.3 million people (2.9 million more people live in Costa Rica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Gabon vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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