Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 1,965 times bigger than Tuvalu.
Tuvalu is approximately 26 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 196,438% larger than Tuvalu. Meanwhile, the population of Tuvalu is ~11,544 people (5.2 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Tuvalu
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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