Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 4.7 times smaller than Romania.
Romania is approximately 238,391 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 21.44% the size of Romania. Meanwhile, the population of Romania is ~18.5 million people (13.3 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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Moving from Costa Rica to Romania · UN DESA 2020
76 people born in Costa Rica live in Romania.
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