Costa Rica
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Costa Rica (pronounced /ˌkoʊstə ˈriːkə/ (deprecatit template)), offeecially the Republic o Costa Rica (Spaingie: Costa Rica or República de Costa Rica, pronoonced: [reˈpuβlika ðe ˈkosta ˈrika]) is a kintra in Central Americae, bordered bi Nicaragua tae the north, Panama tae the soothaest, the Paceefic Ocean tae the wast an sooth an the Caribbean Sea tae the east.
Republic o Costa Rica República de Costa Rica | |
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Caipital | San José 9°56′N 84°5′W |
Lairgest ceety | capital |
Offeecial leids | Spaingie |
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Ethnic groups (2011[1]) |
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Releegion | Roman Catholicism |
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Govrenment | Unitar presidential constitutional republic |
• Preses | Luis Guillermo Solís |
• 1st Vice-Preses | Helio Fallas Venegas |
• 2nt Vice-Preses | Ana Helena Chacón Echeverría |
Legislatur | Legislative Assembly |
Unthirldom declared | |
• frae Spain | 15 September 1821 |
• frae First Mexican Empire | 1 Julie 1823 |
• frae the Unitit Provinces o Central Americae | 1838 |
• Recognisit bi Spain | 10 Mey 1850 |
• Constitution | 7 November 1949[2] |
Aurie | |
• Total | 51,100 km2 (19,700 sq mi) (128t) |
• Water (%) | 0.7 |
Population | |
• 2011 census | 4,586,353[3] |
• Density | 84[3]/km2 (217.6/sq mi) (107t) |
GDP (PPP) | 2015 estimate |
• Total | $74.324 billion[4] |
• Per capita | $15,365[4] |
GDP (nominal) | 2015 estimate |
• Tot | $52.800 billion[4] |
• Per capita | $10,916[4] |
Gini (2009) | 40.7[5] medium |
HDI (2014) | 0.766[6] heich · 69th |
Currency | Costa Rican colón (CRC) |
Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
Drivin side | right |
Cawin code | +506 |
ISO 3166 code | CR |
Internet TLD | .cr |
Costa Rica, which means "Rich Coast", constitutionally abolisht its airmy permanently in 1949 sicweys becomin militarily neutral. It is the anerlie Laitin American kintra includit in the leet o the warld’s 22 aulder democracies. Costa Rica haes consistently been amang the tap Latin American kintras in terms o the Human Development Index, an rankit 69t in the warld in 2011. The kintra is rankit 5t in the warld, an 1st amang the Americaes, in terms o the 2012 Environmental Performance Index.