Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 34 times smaller than Libya.
Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km,
while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making
Costa Rica 2.9% the size of Libya.
Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people
(1.9 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Libya
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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