Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.4 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 42.39% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (20.8 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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