Costa Rica
country in Central America
Facts
94 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- sovereign state, country[21]
- Inception
- 1821
- Official website
- www.presidencia.go.cr
- Native label
- República de Costa Rica
- Official name
- Costa Rica, République du Costa Rica, Republic of Costa Rica
Location
- Country
- Costa Rica[15]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 10.000°, -84.000°
- Continent
- North America[20]
- Located in or next to body of water
- Caribbean Sea, Pacific Ocean[16][17]
- Located in/on physical feature
- Hispanic America, Central America
Population and size
- Area
- +51179.92
- Female population
- 2.6M (2.5M–2.6M, n=4)
- Highest point
- Cerro Chirripó
- Male population
- 2.6M (2.5M–2.6M, n=4)
- Population
- 5.3M (120k–5.3M, n=63)⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1,334,044 · 1,381,532 · 1,431,088 · 1,336,274 · 1,532,828 GeoNames 4,999,441 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +77
- BTI Governance Index
- 7.13 (6.66–7.13, n=8)
- BTI Status Index
- 8.37 (8.37–8.86, n=7)
- Birth rate
- 11.7 (11.7–12.8, n=4)
- Central bank
- Central Bank of Costa Rica
- Coat of arms
- coat of arms of Costa Rica[40]
- Coextensive with
- America/Costa_Rica
- Contains the administrative territorial entity
- Alajuela Province, Cartago Province, Guanacaste Province, Heredia Province, Limón Province, Puntarenas Province, San José Province[31][32][33][34][35][36][37]
- Coordinates of easternmost point
- 🗺️ 5.519°, -87.094°
- Coordinates of geographic center
- 🗺️ 9.749°, -83.753°
- Coordinates of northernmost point
- 🗺️ 11.220°, -85.620°
- Coordinates of southernmost point
- 🗺️ 5.499°, -87.074°
- Coordinates of westernmost point
- 🗺️ 5.528°, -87.061°
- Culture
- culture of Costa Rica
- Currency
- Costa Rican colón, Costa Rican peso[26]
- Death rate
- 7.11 (5.47–7.19, n=4)
- Democracy Index
- +8.16
- Demographics of topic
- Demographics of Costa Rica
- Demonym
- Costa Ricaan, Costa Rican, Costa Rica-i, costaricaner, Kostarikänan, كوستاريكي, كوستاريكية, كوستاريكيون, костариканцы, קוסטה ריקני, קוסטה ריקנית, costaricani, costarican, costaricană, কোস্টা রিকান, costaricano, costaricana, costaricani, costaricane, costarican, Costa-Ricaner, Costa-Ricanerin, costarricanu, Kostrarikano, Costaricien, Costaricienne, Costa Ricans, costaricana, costaricane, costaricani, costarican, كوسطاريكي, كوسطاريكية, كوسطاريكيين, كوسطاريكيات, Cósta Ríceach
- Described by source
- Sytin Military Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- Diplomatic relation
- Brazil, Germany, Australia, Chile, Uruguay, Taiwan, Mexico, United States, Russia, Georgia, Denmark, North Korea, People's Republic of China, Hungary, Kosovo, Mosquitia
- Driving side
- right
- Economy of topic
- economy of Costa Rica
- GS1 country code
- 744
- Geography of topic
- Geography of Costa Rica
- Geoshape
- 🗺️ View shape: Costa Rica
- Gini coefficient
- +49.3
- Happy Planet Index score
- +62.1
- Has characteristic
- free country
- Hashtag
- CostaRica
- Head of government
- Rodrigo Chaves, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Luis Guillermo Solís, Laura Chinchilla, Óscar Arias Sánchez, Abel Pacheco, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría, Laura Fernández Delgado[18][19]
- Head of state
- Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Rodrigo Chaves, Laura Fernández Delgado[22][23]
- History of topic
- history of Costa Rica
- Human Development Index
- 0.81 (0.66–0.82, n=32)
- Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
- 0.66 (0.63–0.67, n=12)
- Legislative body
- Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica[39]
- Licence plate code
- CR[43]
- Life expectancy
- 77 (77–79.8, n=22)
- Literacy rate
- +97.41
- Lowest point
- Caribbean Sea
- Mains voltage
- +120
- Maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Costa Rica, WikiProject Countries, WikiProject Central America, WikiProject Latin America
- Maritime identification digits
- 321
- Marriageable age
- +18
- Member of
- United Nations, World Trade Organization, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Central American Bank for Economic Integration, Central American Common Market, Interpol, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, UNESCO, Group on Earth Observations, Universal Postal Union, International Telecommunication Union, Organization of American States, World Meteorological Organization, World Health Organization, International Regional Organization for Agricultural Health, World Customs Organization, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
- Mobile country code
- 712
- Most populous urban area
- San José
- Motto text
- Vivan siempre el trabajo y la paz, Essential Costa Rica
- Nominal GDP
- +64616482168, +68380838316
- Number of out-of-school children
- 56k (52k–56k, n=5)
- Office held by head of government
- President of Costa Rica
- Office held by head of state
- President of Costa Rica
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- P14470
- Locations/Costa_Rica
- P14541
- 1p4DTy
- P14968
- 1917
- Patron saint
- Virgin of the Angels[44]
- Permanent duplicated item
- Wikidata item, Wikidata item
- Replaces
- Mosquitia
- Rural population
- 930k (930k–1.0M, n=4)
- Social media followers
- +58337
- Suicide rate
- 7.6 (7.3–8.6, n=6)
- Telephone country code
- +506[47]
- Topic has template
- Template:Provinces of Costa Rica
- Total fertility rate
- 1.82 (1.82–2.46, n=16)
- Unemployment rate
- +8
- Unicode character
- 🇨🇷
- Urban population
- 4.3M (4.1M–4.3M, n=4)
- VAT rate
- +13
🏷️ Also known as
en cr
en CRC
en Republic of Costa Rica
en Costa Rica
en CRI
ar كوستاريكا
cs Kostarika
cs CRC
da CRC
de Kosta Rika
de Kostarika
de Republik Costa Rica
de CRC
de „Schweiz Mittelamerikas“
el Κόστα Ρίκα
en-gb CRC
es CR
es CRC
es República de Costa Rica
fa کاستاریکا
🔖 Identifiers · 167
- ISNI
- 000000012248346X
- VIAF cluster ID
- 126073638
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n79070075
- GND ID
- 4010618-4
- AGROVOC ID
- c_1920
- AllTrails trail ID
- costa-rica
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID
- 86156
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 3190
- BBC News topic ID
- c50znx8v888t
- BBC Things ID
- d7347749-a8e6-49da-b2ac-ff3c8e1713a2
- BabelNet ID
- 00023012n
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 11943356v⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 11943356v isni_public 11880981n edition 2026-10-01 · CC0 1.0
Show all 167 identifiers +155
- Biblissima authority ID
- Arctium lappa
- Booru tag
- costa_rica
- British Museum place ID
- x29903
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
- costa-rica
- CIVICUS Monitor country entry
- costa-rica
- Catholic Encyclopedia ID
- 04417d
- Colon Classification
- SG--758
- Comic Vine ID
- 4020-56465
- Curlie ID
- Regional/Central_America/Costa_Rica/
- DBNL country ID
- costa01
- DR topic ID
- costa-rica
- Dagens Nyheter topic ID
- costa-rica
- Data Commons ID
- country/CRI
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- 2--7281
- EHLFL ID
- Costa_Rica
- EU Knowledge Graph item ID
- Ecuador
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID
- 106646
- Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID
- 203805
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
- 550448
- Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID
- E0058640
- Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID
- costa_rica
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Costa-Rica
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- costa-rica
- EuroVoc ID
- 247
- FAST ID
- 1205604
- FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
- CS
- FactGrid item ID
- Rezhet
- Fandom article ID
- gta:Costa_Rica, naturerules1:Costa_Rica, countries:Costa_Rica
- Fandom wiki ID
- costarica
- France 24 topic ID (French)
- costa-rica
- Freebase ID
- /m/01p8s
- GACS ID
- 52
- GCMD keyword ID
- 58ee925e-3285-4192-8f0a-f49a5c211439
- GENC 3-character code
- CRI
- GeoNLP ID (obsolete)
- UDauoY
- GeoNames ID
- 3624060
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 7005364
- Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)
- 3035-2231
- GitHub topic
- costa-rica
- Golden ID
- Costa_Rica-NR64
- Google Arts & Culture entity ID
- m01p8s
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- costa-rica-2
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0020317
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Costa_Rica
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 2102261
- Grove Art Online ID
- T019780
- Gynopedia ID
- Costa Rica
- HDS ID
- 003382
- Harper's tag
- costa-rica
- Historical Gazetteer (GOV) ID
- object_406432
- IAB code
- 1275
- ILO Thesaurus ID
- -2100387967
- INSEE countries and foreign territories code
- 99406
- INaturalist place ID
- 6924
- IOC country code
- CRC
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code
- CR
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code
- CRI
- ISO 3166-1 numeric code
- 188
- ITU letter code
- CTR
- ITU/ISO/IEC object ID
- 2.16.188
- Interlingual Index ID
- i82796
- JORFSearch organization ID
- Costa Rica
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID (Russian)
- 12206
- Joconde discovery ID
- T115-4404
- Joconde location ID
- T84-226
- KBpedia ID
- CostaRica
- Klexikon article ID
- Costa_Rica
- Krugosvet article (archived)
- strany-mira/kosta-rika
- KulturNav-ID
- 6615d415-6ce6-4043-966e-faba74ac8ee7
- LC and MARC vocabularies ID
- countries/cr, geographicAreas/nccr
- Le Figaro tag ID
- Costa-Rica
- Le Monde diplomatique subject ID
- pays/costarica
- Lex ID
- Costa_Rica
- Lille norske leksikon ID
- Costa_Rica
- M49 code
- 188
- Mapy.com ID
- osm&id=188
- Marine Regions Geographic ID
- 2162
- MeSH descriptor ID
- D003364
- MeSH tree code
- Z01.107.169.238
- Mindat locality ID
- 21899
- Museum-digital place ID
- 14028
- MusicBrainz area ID
- ba544658-8266-36cb-ac0e-3bdfbf52cb00
- NALT ID
- 23667
- NDL Authority ID
- 00566755
- NE.se ID
- costa-rica
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge129641
- NRK topic ID
- 1.6404054
- Namuwiki ID
- 코스타리카
- National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
- geo/F97AA71A-BEA6-44E4-9BCE-D1A93899C9D6
- National Library of Israel ID (old)
- 000975849
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007564233105171
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
- XX451070
- New York Post topic ID
- costa-rica
- New York Times topic ID
- destination/costa-rica
- Newsweek topic ID
- costa-rica
- NicoNicoPedia ID
- コスタリカ
- Numista ruling authority ID
- 3834
- OBO Gazetteer ID
- 00002901
- OHDSI ID
- 4330444
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
- 8355
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 4169078
- OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
- 2808539
- OpenStreetMap node ID
- 424297465
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 287667
- Orthodox Encyclopedia ID
- 2458859
- Our Campaigns container ID
- 6411
- PACTOLS thesaurus ID
- pcrtB8dqd283LX
- PM20 geo code
- E70
- Pontificia Università della Santa Croce ID
- 19420
- Postimees topic ID
- 64
- Quora topic ID
- Costa-Rica-1
- RKD thesaurus ID
- 24376
- RationalWiki ID
- Costa_Rica
- SNARC ID
- Montana
- STW Thesaurus for Economics ID
- 17777-1
- SVKKL authority ID
- 0204732-Kostarika
- Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID
- 2061
- ScienceDirect topic ID
- earth-and-planetary-sciences/costa-rica
- Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
- geografico/1114844
- Statoids ID
- ucr
- Subreddit
- costarica, costa_rica
- TasteAtlas ID
- costa-rica
- TermCymru ID
- 169500586
- The Guardian topic ID
- world/costa-rica
- The New Yorker topic ID
- costa-rica
- The World Factbook country ID (archived)
- costa-rica
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal
- Portal:Costa Rica
- Topic's main category
- Category:Costa Rica
- Treccani ID
- costa-rica
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
- costa-rica
- Twitch tag ID
- 735253a8-74c2-45cf-a973-d1b58c2e25ce
- U.S. National Archives Identifier
- 10044685
- UK Parliament ID
- BZynxGgv
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID
- 9438
- UNBIS Thesaurus ID
- 1001336
- UNDP country code
- COS
- UNESCO Thesaurus ID
- concept772
- Urban Electric Transit country ID
- 118
- Vikidia article ID
- es:Costa_Rica, ca:Costa_Rica, fr:Costa_Rica
- WIPO ST.3
- CR
- Wellcome Collection concept ID
- j2fka9tc
- Who's on First ID
- 85632487
- WikiKids ID
- Costa_Rica
- Wikisimpsons article ID
- 48455
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
- 08753940-n
- World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID
- costa-rica
- World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID
- COS
- World Historical Gazetteer place ID
- 12346730
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJdcwt8mjYRVCxv8mgQTHC
- YSA ID
- Y107069
- YSO ID
- 107069
- Yale LUX ID
- concept/96f6f22b-d401-4552-a8d9-ca4194f6858c
- Yle topic ID
- 18-82725
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← Country of origin 28
← Ratified by 23
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+10 more
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World Factbook
CIA reference data · 4 sections
Geography
Location
Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Nicaragua and Panama
Climate
tropical and subtropical; dry season (December to April); rainy season (May to November); cooler in highlands
Terrain
coastal plains separated by rugged mountains including over 100 volcanic cones, of which several are major active volcanoes
Natural resources
hydropower
People & Society
Religions
Roman Catholic 47.5%, Evangelical and Pentecostal 19.8%, Jehovah's Witness 1.4%, other Protestant 1.2%, other 3.1%, none 27% (2021 est.)
Government
Government type
presidential republic
Independence
15 September 1821 (from Spain)
National holiday
Independence Day, 15 September (1821)
Legal system
civil law system based on Spanish civil code; Supreme Court reviews legislative acts
Economy
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)
$138.371 billion (2024 est.)
Real GDP per capita
$27,000 (2024 est.)
Real GDP growth rate
4.3% (2024 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices)
-0.4% (2024 est.)
Unemployment rate
7.9% (2024 est.)
Exports - partners
USA 40%, Netherlands 6%, China 5%, Guatemala 4%, Belgium 3% (2023)
Imports - partners
USA 38%, China 15%, Mexico 6%, Brazil 3%, Guatemala 3% (2023)
Source: CIA World Factbook · public domain (US gov work, 17 USC §105) · fetched 2026-05-06
Body
Cultural Significance
Things named for Costa Rica include Costa Ricans[48], a human population[49].
Why It Matters
Entities named for Costa Rica include Costa Ricans[48], a human population[49].
🛰️ Living Edge
· news-derived, source-cited
high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.
served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold
Member of
Latin America
emerging0.722 independent sources
evidence “Costa Rica breaks through to fourth place in 2026, the highest-ever rank for any Latin American country in the history of the World Happiness Report.” yahoo.com · read source
Member of
Concacaf
emerging0.722 independent sources
evidence “the USA, Mexico, Canada and Costa Rica from Concacaf;” gostanford.com · read source