Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 5 times smaller than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 19.01% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (151,407 more people live in Costa Rica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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