Country size comparison
compared to
Maldives is about 171 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km,
while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making
Maldives 0.58% the size of Costa Rica.
Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people
(4.8 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Maldives
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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