Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 3.5 times smaller than Uruguay.
Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km,
while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making
Costa Rica 29.0% the size of Uruguay.
Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people
(1.8 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Uruguay
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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