Country size comparison
compared to
Gibraltar is about 7,862 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km,
while Gibraltar is approximately 7 sq km, making
Gibraltar 0.01% the size of Costa Rica.
Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people
(5.2 million fewer people live in Gibraltar).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Gibraltar
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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