Costa Rica is about 3.4 times smaller than Washington.

Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 29.65% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (1.5 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Washington vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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