Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.5 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km,
while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making
Costa Rica 40.5% the size of North Carolina.
Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people
(4.3 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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