Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 8 times smaller than Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe is approximately 390,757 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 13.08% the size of Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, the population of Zimbabwe is ~15.1 million people (9.9 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
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