Country size comparison
compared to
Christmas Island is about 379 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Christmas Island is approximately 135 sq km, making Christmas Island 0.26% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (5.2 million fewer people live in Christmas Island).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Christmas Island
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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