Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 119 times bigger than Barbados.
Barbados is approximately 430 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 11,784% larger than Barbados. Meanwhile, the population of Barbados is ~302,674 people (4.9 million more people live in Costa Rica).
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