Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 2.8 times smaller than Wisconsin.
Wisconsin is approximately 140,663 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 36.33% the size of Wisconsin. Meanwhile, the population of Wisconsin is ~5.7 million people (482,575 fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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