Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.9 times smaller than Bangladesh.
Bangladesh is approximately 148,460 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 34.42% the size of Bangladesh. Meanwhile, the population of Bangladesh is ~165.7 million people (160.4 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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