Country size comparison
compared to
Samoa is about 18 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 5.54% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (5.0 million fewer people live in Samoa).
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