Costa Rica is about 42 times smaller than Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 2.38% the size of Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the population of Saudi Arabia is ~35.4 million people (30.1 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Saudi Arabia vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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