Country size comparison
compared to
Tuvalu is about 1,965 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Tuvalu is approximately 26 sq km, making Tuvalu 0.05% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (5.2 million fewer people live in Tuvalu).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Tuvalu
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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