Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 16 times smaller than Namibia.

Namibia is approximately 824,292 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 6.2% the size of Namibia. Meanwhile, the population of Namibia is ~2.7 million people (2.5 million more people live in Costa Rica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Namibia vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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