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Costa Rica (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 10 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 10.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 084 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -84.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Inhabited by small, independent tribes of Boruca, Carib, Chorotega, Corobici and Nahua when Columbus landed in 1502; after many battles with native peoples, conquered by Spain in 1563; part of Nicaraguan intendency in 18th century; part of Mexican Empire 1821; official language is Spanish, though a Jamaican dialect of English is also spoken in some places. |
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| Costa Rica (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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............ | named by Columbus in 1502, for the gold he found along the coast |
| Costa Rica (French-P,U,N)
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| Costa Rica (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| República de Costa Rica (C,V,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Republic of Costa Rica (C,O,English,U,N)
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| République du Costa Rica (C,O,French,U,N)
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| Коста-Рика (C,O,Russian-P,U)
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| Республика Коста-Рика (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 哥斯达黎加 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 哥斯达黎加共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| هوس خارٍكا (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً هوس خارٍكا (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| CRI (C,O,ISO3L)
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| CR (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO188 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| CS00 (C,O,FIPS)
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| Nueva Cartago (H,V)
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| Costa Rican (C,O,English,U,A)
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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became a sovereign republic in 1838 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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| province (H) |
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of Spain, in 1540, though native people were not conquered for a number of years after this |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
San José .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, North and Central America, Costa Rica, San José) [7005943] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1945 |
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