Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 25 times smaller than Chad.
Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 3.98% the size of Chad. Meanwhile, the population of Chad is ~18.0 million people (12.8 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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