Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 1.2 times smaller than Svalbard.
Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 82.36% the size of Svalbard. Meanwhile, the population of Svalbard is ~2,926 people (5.2 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Svalbard
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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