Costa Rica is about 1.2 times smaller than Svalbard.

Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 82.36% the size of Svalbard. Meanwhile, the population of Svalbard is ~2,926 people (5.2 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Svalbard vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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