Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 10 times smaller than Thailand.
Thailand is approximately 513,120 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 9.96% the size of Thailand. Meanwhile, the population of Thailand is ~69.6 million people (64.4 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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