Costa Rica is about 8 times smaller than Paraguay.

Paraguay is approximately 406,752 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 12.56% the size of Paraguay. Meanwhile, the population of Paraguay is ~7.4 million people (2.2 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Paraguay vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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