Costa Rica is about 1.5 times smaller than South Carolina.

South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 65.53% the size of South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (579,047 more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of South Carolina vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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