Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 31 times smaller than Mongolia.
Mongolia is approximately 1,564,116 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 3.27% the size of Mongolia. Meanwhile, the population of Mongolia is ~3.2 million people (2.0 million more people live in Costa Rica).
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