Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 7 times smaller than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 13.52% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (119.0 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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