Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 12 times smaller than Ukraine.

Ukraine is approximately 603,550 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 8.47% the size of Ukraine. Meanwhile, the population of Ukraine is ~43.5 million people (38.3 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ukraine vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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