Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 8 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 12.65% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (32.0 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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