Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 1.4 times smaller than Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 72.72% the size of Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (70,593 fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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Moving from Costa Rica to Ireland · UN DESA 2020
11 people born in Costa Rica live in Ireland.
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