Country size comparison
compared to
Cook Islands is about 217 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Cook Islands is approximately 236 sq km, making Cook Islands 0.46% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (5.2 million fewer people live in Cook Islands).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Cook Islands
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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