Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 195 times smaller than Canada.
Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 0.51% the size of Canada. Meanwhile, the population of Canada is ~38.2 million people (33.0 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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Moving from Costa Rica to Canada · OECD 2023
265 people moved from Costa Rica to Canada.
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