Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.4 times smaller than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 41.79% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (14.2 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
New York
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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