Costa Rica is about 2.4 times smaller than Mississippi.

Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 42.06% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (2.2 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Mississippi vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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