Country size comparison
compared to
Vanuatu is about 4.2 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 23.85% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Vanuatu
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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