Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 3.4 times smaller than Washington.
Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 29.65% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (1.5 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Washington
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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