Costa Rica is about 4.2 times bigger than Vanuatu.

Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 319% larger than Vanuatu. Meanwhile, the population of Vanuatu is ~308,043 people (4.9 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Vanuatu vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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