Country size comparison
compared to
American Samoa is about 228 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while American Samoa is approximately 224 sq km, making American Samoa 0.44% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (5.2 million fewer people live in American Samoa).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
American Samoa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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