Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 3.7 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 27.26% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (16.4 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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