Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 1.6 times smaller than Austria.
Austria is approximately 83,871 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 60.93% the size of Austria. Meanwhile, the population of Austria is ~8.9 million people (3.7 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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