Country size comparison

 Costa Rica
compared to
 China

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