Costa Rica is about 18 times smaller than Venezuela.

Venezuela is approximately 912,050 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 5.6% the size of Venezuela. Meanwhile, the population of Venezuela is ~29.8 million people (24.6 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Venezuela vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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