Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 7 times smaller than Germany.
Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 14.31% the size of Germany. Meanwhile, the population of Germany is ~84.3 million people (79.1 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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Moving from Costa Rica to Germany · OECD 2023
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