Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 6 times smaller than Philippines.

Philippines is approximately 300,000 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 17.03% the size of Philippines. Meanwhile, the population of Philippines is ~114.6 million people (109.4 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Philippines vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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