Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 2.1 times smaller than Tennessee.
Tennessee is approximately 106,752 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 47.87% the size of Tennessee. Meanwhile, the population of Tennessee is ~6.3 million people (1.1 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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