Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 1.3 times smaller than Latvia.
Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km,
while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making
Costa Rica 79.12% the size of Latvia.
Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people
(3.4 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Latvia
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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