Costa Rica is about 25 times smaller than Peru.

Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 3.98% the size of Peru. Meanwhile, the population of Peru is ~32.3 million people (27.1 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Peru vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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