Country size comparison
compared to
Iceland is about 2 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 102% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (4.8 million fewer people live in Iceland).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Iceland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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