Country size comparison
compared to
Virgin Islands is about 27 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Virgin Islands is approximately 1,910 sq km, making Virgin Islands 3.74% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (5.1 million fewer people live in Virgin Islands).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Virgin Islands
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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