Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 2.5 times bigger than Massachusetts.
Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 152% larger than Massachusetts. Meanwhile, the population of Massachusetts is ~6.5 million people (1.3 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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