Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.3 times smaller than Eritrea.
Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 43.45% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (1.0 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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