Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 9 times smaller than Sweden.
Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 11.35% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (5.3 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Sweden
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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