Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 1.5 times smaller than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 65.53% the size of South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (579,047 more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
South Carolina
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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