Country size comparison
compared to
Palau is about 111 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.9% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (5.2 million fewer people live in Palau).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Palau
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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