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).
This to-scale comparison of Kansas vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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