Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 1.2 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 21% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (5.2 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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