Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 3.5 times smaller than Missouri.
Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 28.64% the size of Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people (784,516 fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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