Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 1.3 times smaller than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 77.88% the size of Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (18.0 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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