Country size comparison

 Costa Rica
compared to
 New York, USA

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). We have positioned the outline of New York near the middle of Costa Rica.
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Flip comparison: see Costa Rica on top of New York
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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