Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.4 times bigger than El Salvador.
El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 143% larger than El Salvador. Meanwhile, the population of El Salvador is ~6.6 million people (1.4 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
El Salvador
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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