Country size comparison
compared to
New York is about 2.4 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 139% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (14.2 million more people live in New York).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
New York
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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