Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 18 times bigger than Samoa.
Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 1,705% larger than Samoa. Meanwhile, the population of Samoa is ~206,179 people (5.0 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Samoa
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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