Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 1.9 times smaller than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 51.54% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (8.0 million more people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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