Country size comparison

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Jamaica is about 4.7 times smaller than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Jamaica is approximately 10,991 sq km, making Jamaica 21.51% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in Jamaica).
This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. Jamaica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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