Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2 times smaller than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 49.83% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (2.8 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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