Country size comparison

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Russia is about 335 times bigger than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 33,360% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (136.8 million more people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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