Country size comparison

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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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