Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 1.2 times bigger than Switzerland.
Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 24% larger than Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people (3.3 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Switzerland
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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