Country size comparison
compared to
Uruguay is about 3.5 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 245% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (1.8 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Uruguay
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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