Costa Rica is about 2.5 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 39.2% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (1.1 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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