Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 2.4 times smaller than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 41.79% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (14.2 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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