Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 11 times smaller than Kenya.
Kenya is approximately 580,367 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 8.8% the size of Kenya. Meanwhile, the population of Kenya is ~55.9 million people (50.7 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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