Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 4.2 times smaller than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 23.85% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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