The Republic of Costa Rica (Spanish: La República de?Costa Rica).

Costa Rica, commonly known as "Coast of Fertility", is a Central American country bordering Nicaragua to the north and Panama to the south. Its capital is San Jose. Costa Rica is the first country in the world to dismantle its military.

Currently, Costa Rica is a country with better economic development in Central America and has a higher standard of living. In addition, Costa Rica attaches great importance to ecological conservation. It has many nature reserves in the country and is one of the few that has fully adopted sustainable development. countries that use electricity, and gradually make transportation mainly based on renewable energy. Listed on the list of the best places to retire in 2020 by Forbes.

Costa Rica is located in the narrow strip of Central America, at 10 degrees north latitude and 84 degrees west longitude. It is bounded by the Caribbean Sea to the east and the North Pacific Ocean to the west, with a coastline of 1,290 kilometers (212 kilometers of the Caribbean Sea on the east coast and 1,016 kilometers of the Pacific Ocean on the west coast).

Costa Rica borders Nicaragua to the north (border length 309 kilometers) and Panama to the south-southeast (border length 639 kilometers). The total area is 51,100 square kilometers, of which 50,660 square kilometers are territory and 440 square kilometers are territorial waters. It is slightly smaller than West Virginia in the United States and equivalent to Ireland.

The terrain of Costa Rica is: plains along the coast, while the center is isolated by rugged mountains. The country has declared its exclusive economic zone to be 200 nautical miles and its territorial waters to be 12 nautical miles. The climate is tropical and subtropical, with some being neotropical.

Population

Costa Rica’s population is 94% mixed-race and pure-bred Europeans. The main immigrants are Spaniards, and there are also many Germans, Poles, Italians and Jews. , only a few Indians in Costa Rica survived the Western invasion, and now there are only 29,000 indigenous residents, less than 1% of the total population.

The number of Indians today has increased, largely due to immigration benefits for opportunities as agricultural workers. Black descendants who immigrated from Jamaica in the 19th century constitute a minority group of 3% of the population, approximately 96,000 people. The other 1% are Chinese.

Costa Rica has about 10% Nicaraguans, most of whom fled during the 1979-1990 civil war. In addition, Colombians, Panamanians, and Peruvians also experienced significant increases in their numbers.