Country size comparison
compared to
Nauru is about 2,433 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Nauru is approximately 21 sq km, making Nauru 0.04% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (5.2 million fewer people live in Nauru).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Nauru
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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