Country size comparison
compared to
Indonesia is about 37 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Indonesia is approximately 1,904,569 sq km, making Indonesia 3,627% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (272.1 million more people live in Indonesia).
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