Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.7 times bigger than New Jersey.
New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 166% larger than New Jersey. Meanwhile, the population of New Jersey is ~8.8 million people (3.6 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
New Jersey
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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