Country size comparison

 Costa Rica
compared to
 California, USA

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). We have positioned the outline of California near the middle of Costa Rica.
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Flip comparison: see Costa Rica on top of California
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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