Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.8 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 35.31% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.2 million more people live in Costa Rica).
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