Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 6 times smaller than Malaysia.
Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 15.49% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~36.0 million people (30.8 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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