Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 53 times smaller than Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan is approximately 2,724,900 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 1.88% the size of Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, the population of Kazakhstan is ~20.8 million people (15.7 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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