Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 19 times smaller than Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 5.39% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (58.6 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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