Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 188 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 0.53% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
China
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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