Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.4 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km,
while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making
Costa Rica 42.39% the size of North Korea.
Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people
(20.8 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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