Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 6 times smaller than Italy.

Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 16.96% the size of Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people (55.9 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Italy vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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