Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 6 times smaller than Arizona.
Arizona is approximately 294,312 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 17.36% the size of Arizona. Meanwhile, the population of Arizona is ~6.4 million people (1.2 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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