Country size comparison

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Virgin Islands is about 27 times smaller than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Virgin Islands is approximately 1,910 sq km, making Virgin Islands 3.74% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (5.1 million fewer people live in Virgin Islands).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. Virgin Islands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Virgin Islands to Costa Rica · UN DESA 2020
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