Costa Rica is about 37 times smaller than Indonesia.

Indonesia is approximately 1,904,569 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 2.68% the size of Indonesia. Meanwhile, the population of Indonesia is ~277.3 million people (272.1 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Indonesia vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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