Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 15 times smaller than Zambia.
Zambia is approximately 752,618 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 6.79% the size of Zambia. Meanwhile, the population of Zambia is ~19.6 million people (14.4 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Zambia
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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