Country size comparison
compared to
Peru is about 25 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, making Peru 2,415% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (27.1 million more people live in Peru).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Peru
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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