Costa Rica is about 11 times smaller than Madagascar.

Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 8.7% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (23.0 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Madagascar vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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