Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 4.7 times bigger than Jamaica.
Jamaica is approximately 10,991 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 365% larger than Jamaica. Meanwhile, the population of Jamaica is ~2.8 million people (2.4 million more people live in Costa Rica).
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Moving from Costa Rica to Jamaica · UN DESA 2020
100 people born in Costa Rica live in Jamaica.
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