Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.9 times smaller than Nepal.
Nepal is approximately 147,181 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 34.72% the size of Nepal. Meanwhile, the population of Nepal is ~30.7 million people (25.5 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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