Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 3.5 times smaller than Cambodia.
Cambodia is approximately 181,035 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 28.23% the size of Cambodia. Meanwhile, the population of Cambodia is ~16.7 million people (11.5 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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