Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.3 times bigger than Israel.
Israel is approximately 21,937 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 133% larger than Israel. Meanwhile, the population of Israel is ~8.9 million people (3.7 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Israel
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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