Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 2.4 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 41.18% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (1.4 million more people live in El Salvador).
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Moving from El Salvador to Costa Rica · UN DESA 2020
16,682 people born in El Salvador live in Costa Rica.
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