Costa Rica
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- CR
- ISO alpha-3
- CRI
- ISO numeric
- 188
- FIPS 10-4
- CS
- GeoNames ID
- 3624060
Key facts
- Capital
- San Jose
- Area
- 51,100 km²
- Population
- 4,999,441
- Currency
- Colon (CRC)
- Calling code
- +506
- Top-level domain
- .cr
- Official languages
- es-CR,en
Continent
- Name
- North America
- Code
- NA
- In this dataset
- 42 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 10
- Longitude
- -84
- Min latitude
- 5.51508209800005
- Min longitude
- -87.11766516799992
- Max latitude
- 11.209937032000099
- Max longitude
- -82.56283687399991
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/CR?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 51100,
"capital": "San Jose",
"continent_code": "NA",
"currency_code": "CRC",
"iso3_code": "CRI",
"iso_code": "CR",
"name": "Costa Rica",
"population": 4999441
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/CR/regions/v1/cities?country=CR/v1/postal-codes?country=CR/v1/timezones?country=CR
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- كوستاريكا
- Chinese
- 哥斯达黎加
- English
- Costa Rica
- French
- Costa Rica
- German
- Costa Rica
- Hindi
- कोस्टारिका
- Italian
- Costa Rica
- Japanese
- コスタリカ
- Korean
- 코스타리카
- Portuguese
- Costa Rica
- Russian
- Коста-Рика
- Spanish
- Costa Rica
- Total language variants
- 125
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| America/Costa_Rica | UTC-06:00 | UTC-06:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- #####
- Pattern
^(\d{5})$
First-level administrative regions
- Provincia de San José
- Provincia de Alajuela
- Provincia de Cartago
- Provincia de Heredia
- Provincia de Puntarenas
- Provincia de Limón
- Provincia de Guanacaste
7 of 7 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| San José | 335,007 |
| Limón | 63,081 |
| San Francisco | 55,923 |
| Alajuela | 47,494 |
| Liberia | 45,380 |
| Paraíso | 39,702 |
| Puntarenas | 35,650 |
| San Isidro | 34,877 |
| Curridabat | 34,586 |
| San Vicente | 34,447 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 5,900
- First-level regions
- 7
- Postal codes
- 473
- Name languages
- 125
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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