Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2 times smaller than Iceland.
Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 49.61% the size of Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (4.8 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Iceland
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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