Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 10 times smaller than Yemen.
Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 9.68% the size of Yemen. Meanwhile, the population of Yemen is ~31.0 million people (25.8 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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