Country size comparison
Switzerland
compared to
Costa Rica
Switzerland is about 1.2 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 80.78% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (3.3 million more people live in Switzerland).
We have positioned the outline of Costa Rica near the middle of Switzerland.
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This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Switzerland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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