Place:Costa Rica

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NameCosta Rica
Alt namesNueva Cartagosource: Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 208
Republic of Costa Ricasource: Wikipedia
República de Costa Ricasource: Britannica Book of the Year (1992) p 579
TypeCountry
Coordinates10°N 84°W
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Barva
Jacó
Province
Alajuela
Cartago
Guanacaste ( 1825 - )
Heredia
Limón
Puntarenas
San José
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Costa Rica (meaning "rich coast" in Spanish), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( or), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the Caribbean Sea to the east.

Costa Rica constitutionally abolished its army permanently in 1949. It is the only Latin American country in the list of the world's 22 older democracies. Costa Rica has consistently been among the top Latin American countries in the Human Development Index (HDI), ranked 69th in the world in 2011.[1]

Costa Rica was cited by the United Nations United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2010 as one of the countries that have attained much higher human development than other countries at the same income levels, and in 2011 was highlighted by UNDP for being a good performer on environmental sustainability and having a better record on human development and inequality than the median of their region. It was also the only country to meet all five criteria established to measure environmental sustainability.[1] The country is ranked fifth in the world, and first among the Americas, in terms of the 2012 Environmental Performance Index.

In 2007, the Costa Rican government announced plans for Costa Rica to become the first carbon-neutral country by 2021. The New Economics Foundation (NEF) ranked Costa Rica first in its 2009 Happy Planet Index, and once again in 2012. The NEF also ranked Costa Rica in 2009 as the greenest country in the world. In 2012 Costa Rica became the first country in the American continent to ban recreational hunting after the country’s legislature approved the popular measure by a wide margin.

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