Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2 times smaller than Kentucky.
Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 49.66% the size of Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (865,044 more people live in Costa Rica).
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