Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 335 times smaller than Russia.
Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 0.3% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (136.8 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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