Costa Rica is about 2.6 times smaller than Arkansas.

Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 37.89% the size of Arkansas. Meanwhile, the population of Arkansas is ~2.9 million people (2.3 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Arkansas vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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