Country size comparison
compared to
Aruba is about 284 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Aruba is approximately 180 sq km, making Aruba 0.35% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (5.1 million fewer people live in Aruba).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Aruba
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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