Costa Rica

Republic o Costa Rica
República de Costa Rica

Banner Coat o airms
Naitional motto: "Vivan siempre el trabajo y la paz"  (Spainyie) "Lang live wirk an peace"
Location o  Costa Rica  (Green)
Offeecial leid	Spainyie
Caipital	San José
Lairgest ceety	caipital
Govrenment Heid o State -	Presidential republic Preses Laura Chinchilla
Area	51,100
Population	4,253,897
Foondin	15 September 1821
Siller	Costa Rican colón
Time zone	UTC-6
Naitional anthem	Noble patria, tu hermosa bandera  (Spainyie) Noble hamelaund, yer beautiful banner 1
Naitional flouer
Patron saunt
Internet TLD	.cr
Cawin code	+506

Costa Rica (pronounced /ˌkoʊstə ˈriːkə/ ( listen)), offeecially the Republic o Costa Rica (Spainyie: 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.

Costa Rica, which means "Rich Coast", constitutionally abolisht its army permanently in 1949 thus 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.