Kiribati is about 63 times smaller than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Kiribati is approximately 811 sq km, making Kiribati 1.59% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (5.1 million fewer people live in Kiribati).
This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. Kiribati uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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