Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 20 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 4.96% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (1.0 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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