Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 4.2 times smaller than Kansas.
Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 24.12% the size of Kansas. Meanwhile, the population of Kansas is ~2.9 million people (2.4 million more people live in Costa Rica).
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