Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 22 times smaller than Bolivia.
Bolivia is approximately 1,098,581 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 4.65% the size of Bolivia. Meanwhile, the population of Bolivia is ~12.1 million people (6.8 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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Moving from Costa Rica to Bolivia · UN DESA 2020
162 people born in Costa Rica live in Bolivia.
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