Country size comparison
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Mali is about 24 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, making Mali 2,327% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (15.5 million more people live in Mali).
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