Country size comparison
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Costa Rica is about 15 times smaller than Zambia.
Zambia is approximately 752,618 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 6.79% the size of Zambia. Meanwhile, the population of Zambia is ~19.6 million people (14.4 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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