Costa Rica is about 38 times smaller than Mexico.

Mexico is approximately 1,964,375 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 2.6% the size of Mexico. Meanwhile, the population of Mexico is ~129.2 million people (123.9 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Mexico vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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