Country size comparison
compared to
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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