Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 171 times bigger than Maldives.
Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 17,048% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~390,164 people (4.8 million more people live in Costa Rica).
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