Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 4.7 times smaller than Ghana.
Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 21.42% the size of Ghana. Meanwhile, the population of Ghana is ~33.1 million people (27.9 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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