Country size comparison
compared to
China is about 188 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 18,681% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
China
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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