Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 20 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 4.96% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (1.0 million more people live in Costa Rica).
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