Costa Rica is 1,250 times larger than Costa Mesa, California.
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
Area: 41 km2 calculated
Costa Mesa is a city in Orange County, California. The population was 109,960 at the 2010 United States Census. Wikipedia