Country size comparison
compared to
Houston is about 31 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Houston is approximately 1,659 sq km, making Houston 3.25% the size of Costa Rica.
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Houston
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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