Abolished its army in 1948 and now generates almost all of its electricity from renewable sources.
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Costa Rica
Republic of Costa Rica
North America
· Central America
0Population
51.1Kkm² of land
$12.24KGDP / person
San JoséCapital
- ISO codes
- CR · CRI
- Density
- 99 /km²
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Costa Rican colón (CRC)
- Dial code
- +506
- Internet domain
- .cr
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 10.0650° N, 84.0780° W
- Demonym
- Costa Rican
- UN region
- Americas · Central America
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $61.8B
- Sovereignty
- Independent · UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How Costa Rica stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
122nd
of 242 · 0.07% of world population
Land area
129th
of 242 · 0.03% of world land
GDP per person
93rd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
106th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Costa Rica
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 5,047,561 people, the 122nd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,521 of everyone alive.
Covers 51,100 km², making it the 129th largest country here - about 5.5 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 99 people per km².
The capital is San José, at 9.94° N, 84.09° W, with a metropolitan population of about 1,284,000.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Nicaragua and Panama.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Costa Rica.
The currency is the Costa Rican colón (CRC, symbol ₡).
The official language is Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Costa Rica
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UTC−06:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
★ San José
San José
9.9370° N, 84.0860° W
1.28M
2
Limón
Limón
10.0000° N, 83.0333° W
85K
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Costa Rica.