Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 6 times smaller than Italy.
Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km,
while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making
Costa Rica 16.96% the size of Italy.
Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people
(55.9 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Italy
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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