Costa Rica is 24% larger than Switzerland.
Area: 41,277 km2 World Factbook
Population: 8,061,516 (July 2014) World Factbook
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a federal parliamentary republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities, the so-called Bundesstadt. Wikipedia
Area: 51,100 km2 World Factbook
Population: 4,755,234 (July 2014) World Factbook
Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. Wikipedia