Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 36 times smaller than Sudan.
Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 2.75% the size of Sudan. Meanwhile, the population of Sudan is ~48.0 million people (42.8 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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