Costa Rica is about 2.3 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 43.13% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (15.6 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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