Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 15 times smaller than Turkey.
Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 6.52% the size of Turkey. Meanwhile, the population of Turkey is ~83.0 million people (77.8 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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Moving from Costa Rica to Turkey · UN DESA 2020
72 people born in Costa Rica live in Turkey.
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