Country size comparison
compared to
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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