Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 6 times smaller than Malaysia.
Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km,
while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making
Costa Rica 15.49% the size of Malaysia.
Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people
(28.7 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Malaysia
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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