Country size comparison

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Barbados is about 119 times smaller than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Barbados is approximately 430 sq km, making Barbados 0.84% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in Barbados).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. Barbados uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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