Costa Rica is about 31 times smaller than Mongolia.

Mongolia is approximately 1,564,116 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 3.27% the size of Mongolia. Meanwhile, the population of Mongolia is ~3.2 million people (2.0 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Mongolia vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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