Costa Rica is about 15 times smaller than Turkey.

Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 6.52% the size of Turkey. Meanwhile, the population of Turkey is ~83.0 million people (77.8 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Turkey vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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