Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 42 times bigger than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 4,139% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (5.1 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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