Country size comparison
compared to
El Salvador is about 2.4 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 41.18% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (1.4 million more people live in El Salvador).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
El Salvador
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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