Central America
Costa Rica
Republic of Costa Rica
Core facts
- Capital
- San José
- Population
- 5,309,625
- Area
- 51,100 km^2
- Country code
- CRI
- Flag emoji
- 🇨🇷
- UN member
- Yes
- Independent
- Yes
- Population density
- 103.9 per km^2
- Calling code
- +506
Culture and society
- Languages
- Spanish
- Religions
- Christianity (76.0%), Unaffiliated (19.0%), Other religions (3.0%), Islam (100.0%), Judaism (100.0%)
- Native names
- Costa Rica
- Demonyms (EN)
- Costa Rican / Costa Rican
- Start of week
- monday
- Driving side
- right
- Timezones
- UTC-06:00
- Alternative spellings
- CR, Republic of Costa Rica, República de Costa Rica
Geography and map
- Continents
- North America
- Coordinates
- 10.00, -84.00
- Landlocked
- No
- Borders
- NIC, PAN
- Border countries count
- 2
Economy and identity
- Currencies
- Costa Rican colón (₡)
- Top-level domain
- .cr
- FIFA code
- CRC
- Capital coordinates
- 9.93, -84.09
- Postal code format
- ####
- Gini index
- 48.2 (2019)
- Coat of arms
