Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 7,862 times bigger than Gibraltar.
Gibraltar is approximately 7 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 786,054% larger than Gibraltar. Meanwhile, the population of Gibraltar is ~29,573 people (5.2 million more people live in Costa Rica).
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