Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 151 times smaller than Australia.
Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 0.66% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (20.9 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Australia
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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