Country size comparison
compared to
Latvia is about 1.3 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 26% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (3.4 million fewer people live in Latvia).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Latvia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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