Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 64 times smaller than India.
India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 1.55% the size of India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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