Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 6 times smaller than Norway.

Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 15.78% the size of Norway. Meanwhile, the population of Norway is ~5.6 million people (349,429 fewer people live in Costa Rica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Norway vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Costa Rica to Norway · OECD 2023
8 people moved from Costa Rica to Norway.
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