Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 1.9 times smaller than South Korea.
South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 51.24% the size of South Korea. Meanwhile, the population of South Korea is ~51.8 million people (46.6 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
South Korea
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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