Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 22 times smaller than Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 4.63% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~135.5 million people (130.3 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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