Country size comparison

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Luxembourg is about 20 times smaller than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Luxembourg is approximately 2,586 sq km, making Luxembourg 5.06% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (4.6 million fewer people live in Luxembourg).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. Luxembourg uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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