Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 6 times bigger than Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 461% larger than Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (2.1 million more people live in Costa Rica).
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Moving from Costa Rica to Puerto Rico · UN DESA 2020
924 people born in Costa Rica live in Puerto Rico.
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