Costa Rica
Americas · Untouched
- Capital
- San José
- Population
- 5.3M
- Area
- 51K km²
About Costa Rica
Costa Rica bridges Central America between Nicaragua and Panama, with coastlines on both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Its capital, San José, sits in a temperate central valley ringed by volcanoes. Famous for cloud forests, sloths, and pioneering ecotourism, the country protects roughly a quarter of its territory in national parks and reserves.
- Costa Rica abolished its army in 1948 and has had no standing military ever since.
- Costa Rica means 'Rich Coast' in Spanish, a name tradition attributes to Christopher Columbus.
- Costa Ricans proudly call themselves 'Ticos' and 'Ticas,' after a local habit of adding the diminutive '-tico' to words.
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Nicaragua
Panama