Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 2.6 times smaller than Greece.

Greece is approximately 131,957 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 38.72% the size of Greece. Meanwhile, the population of Greece is ~10.5 million people (5.3 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greece vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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