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ID: 7005364
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005364

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Costa Rica (nation)  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

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.

Names:
Costa Rica (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)  ............ named by Columbus in 1502, for the gold he found along the coast
Costa Rica (Magyar (Hungarian))
Costa Rica (Danish)
Costa Rica (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
Costa Rica (Finnish)
Costa Rica (Swedish)
Costa Rica (Portuguese)
Costa Rica (Romanian)
Costa Rica (Spanish-P,U,N)
Costa Rica (Catalan)
Costa Rica (Basque)
Costa Rica (Welsh)
Costa Rica (German)
Costa Rica (Breton)
Costa Rica (Dutch)
Costa Rica (Afrikaans)
Costa Rica (French-P,U,N)
Costa Rica (Galician)
Costa Rica (Italian)
Costa Rica (Estonian)
Costa Rica (Greenlandic)
Costa Rica (Norwegian (Bokmål))
Costa Rica (Romansh)
Costa Rica (Northern Sami)
República de Costa Rica (C,V,O,Spanish,U,N)
Republic of Costa Rica (C,O,English,U,N)
République du Costa Rica (C,O,French,U,N)
Коста-Рика (C,O,Russian-P,U)
Коста-Рика (Ukrainian)
Республика Коста-Рика (C,O,Russian,U)
哥斯达黎加 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
哥斯达黎加共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
هوس خارٍكا (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
جُهور ةً هوس خارٍكا (C,O,Arabic,U)
CRI (C,O,ISO3L)
CR (C,O,ISO2L)
ISO188 (C,O,ISO3N)
CS (C,O,FIPS)
Costa Rican (C,O,English,U,A)
קוסטה ריקה (C,U,Hebrew )
Còsta Rica (C,U,Occitan)
Cósta Ríce (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
Cốt-xta Ri-ca (C,U,Vietnamese)
i-Costa Rica (C,U,Zulu)
Khosta Rikha (C,U,North Ndebele)
Kosita Lika (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
Kositarika (C,U,Rundi)
Kositarika (Lingala)
Kositarika (Luba-Katanga)
Kosita Rika (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
Kosta Riika (C,U,Somali)
Kostarika (C,U,Croatian)
Kostarika (Bosnian)
Kostarika (Latvian)
Kostarika (Slovak)
Kostarika (Slovene)
Kostarika (Czech)
Kostarika (Kikuyu)
Kostarika (Shona)
Kostarika (Swahili (generic))
Kosta Rika (C,U,Maltese)
Kosta Rika (Indonesian)
Kosta Rika (Azerbaijani)
Kosta Rika (Albanian)
Kosta Rika (Faroese)
Kosta Rika (Lithuanian)
Kosta Rika (Turkish)
Kosta Rika (Malay (macrolanguage))
Kostaríka (C,U,Icelandic)
Kôsta Rîka (C,U,Sangho)
Kosta Rikà (C,U,Malagasy)
Kosta Rikaa (C,U,Fulah)
Kosta Rika nutome (C,U,Ewe)
Kostariko (C,U,Esperanto)
Kostaryka (C,U,Polish)
Kɔsitarika (C,U,Bambara)
Kɔsta Rika (C,U,Akan)
Kwasta Rika (C,U,Hausa)
Orílẹ́ède Kuusita Ríkà (C,U,Yoruba)
ຄອສຕາລິກາ (C,U,Lao)
كوستاريكا (C,U,Arabic)
코스타리카 (C,U,Korean)
ኮስታ ሪካ (C,U,Tigrinya)
ኮስታ ሪካ (Amharic)
Коста Рика (C,U,Bulgarian)
コスタリカ (C,U,Japanese)
Костарика (C,U,Serbian)
Костарика (Macedonian)
கோஸ்டாரிகா (C,U,Tamil)
কোস্টারিকা (C,U,Bengali)
Կոստա-Ռիկա (C,U,Armenian)
កូស្តារីកា (C,U,Khmer)
Κόστα Ρίκα (C,U,Greek)
कोस्टारीका (C,U,Hindi)
คอสตาริกา (C,U,Thai)
კოსტა-რიკა (C,U,Georgian)
کاستاریکا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
ကော့စ်တာရီကာ (C,U,Burmese)
कोस्टारिका (C,U,Marathi)
کوسٹا ریکا (C,U,Urdu)
کۆستاریکا (C,U,Kurdish)
കോസ്റ്ററിക്ക (C,U,Malayalam)
కోస్టారికా (C,U,Telugu)
कोष्टारिका (C,U,Nepali)
ಕೊಸ್ಟಾ ರಿಕಾ (C,U,Kannada)
Коста-Рыка (C,U,Belarusian)
ཀོ་ས྄ཊ་རི་ཀ། (C,U,Tibetan)
કોસ્ટા રિકા (C,U,Gujarati)
କୋଷ୍ଟା ରିକା (C,U,Odia)
Nueva Cartago (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Costa Rica (nation)  ........  Costa Rica (nation) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Central America (general region)  ........  Central America (general region) (P)
Hierarchy of Costa Rica (nation)  ............  Costa Rica (nation)
 
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Mexican Empire (former nation/state/empire)  ........  Mexican Empire (former nation/state/empire) (P)
Hierarchy of Costa Rica (nation)  ............  Costa Rica (nation) (P)

Place Types:
nation (preferred, C)  ............  became a sovereign republic in 1838
primary political unit (C)
independent sovereign nation (C)
republic (C)
province (H)  ............  of Spain, in 1540, though native people were not conquered for a number of years after this
independent political entity (C)

Related geographic places:
capital is ....  San José .......... (inhabited place)
..................  (World, North and Central America, Costa Rica, San José) [7005943]
member of ....  United Nations .......... (organization)
................  (World) [7029605]
................  joined organization in 1945

Sources and Contributors:
Коста-Рика..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
.......................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 22 July 2013
Республика Коста-Рика..........  [VP]
......................................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 22 July 2013
哥斯达黎加..........  [VP]
..............  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
..............  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 22 July 2013
哥斯达黎加共和国..........  [VP]
.................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 22 July 2013
هوس خارٍكا..........  [VP]
.......................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 22 July 2013
جُهور ةً هوس خارٍكا..........  [VP]
...................................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 22 July 2013
קוסטה ריקה..........  [IMJ, VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
.......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
ຄອສຕາລິກາ..........  [VP]
....................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
كوستاريكا..........  [VP]
....................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
코스타리카..........  [VP]
..............  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
ኮስታ ሪካ..........  [VP]
.................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Коста Рика..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
コスタリカ..........  [VP]
..............  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Костарика..........  [VP]
....................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
கோஸ்டாரிகா..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
কোস্টারিকা..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Կոստա-Ռիկա..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
កូស្តារីកា..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Κόστα Ρίκα..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
कोस्टारीका..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
คอสตาริกา..........  [VP]
....................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
კოსტა-რიკა..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
کاستاریکا..........  [VP]
....................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
ကော့စ်တာရီကာ..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
कोस्टारिका..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
کوسٹا ریکا..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
کۆستاریکا..........  [VP]
....................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
കോസ്റ്ററിക്ക..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
కోస్టారికా..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
कोष्टारिका..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
ಕೊಸ್ಟಾ ರಿಕಾ..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Коста-Рыка..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
ཀོ་ས྄ཊ་རི་ཀ།..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
કોસ્ટા રિકા..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
କୋଷ୍ଟା ରିକା..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Costa Rica..........  [BHA, FDA, IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
.......................  Britannica Book of the Year (1993) 589
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) 1:208
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 3:664-665
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
.......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.......................  Times Concise Atlas of the World (1995) I-23
.......................  UN Terminology Bulletin 345 (1993) 46
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 294-295
Còsta Rica..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Costa Rican..........  [VP]
.......................  UN Terminology Bulletin 347 (1997) 9
Cósta Ríce..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Cốt-xta Ri-ca..........  [VP]
..........................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
CR..........  [VP]
...........  ISO Country Codes (1996) 13
CRI..........  [VP]
...........  ISO Handbook (1988) 765
CS..........  [VP]
...........  NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999) accesed 01/20/99
i-Costa Rica..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
ISO188..........  [VP]
.................  ISO Country Codes (1996) 13
Khosta Rikha..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kosita Lika..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kositarika..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kosita Rika..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kosta Riika..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kostarika..........  [VP]
....................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kosta Rika..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kostaríka..........  [VP]
....................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kôsta Rîka..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kosta Rikà..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kosta Rikaa..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kosta Rika nutome..........  [VP]
................................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kostariko..........  [VP]
....................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kostaryka..........  [VP]
....................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kɔsitarika..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kɔsta Rika..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Kwasta Rika..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Nueva Cartago..........  [VP]
..........................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 208
Orílẹ́ède Kuusita Ríkà..........  [VP]
.........................................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
República de Costa Rica..........  [VP]
.........................................  Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 579
.........................................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
Republic of Costa Rica..........  [VP]
.........................................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 153-154
.........................................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
.........................................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
République du Costa Rica..........  [VP]
.........................................  UNGEGN List of Country Names (2007) accessed 11 June 2009
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, IMJ, VP]
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 579
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1993) 589
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 153-154
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 208; 1:208
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 664-665; 3:664-665
..................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 3624060
..................  ISO Country Codes (1996) 13
..................  ISO Handbook (1988) 765
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999) accesed 01/20/99
..................  Times Concise Atlas of the World (1995) I-23
..................  UN Terminology Bulletin 345 (1993) 46
..................  UN Terminology Bulletin 347 (1997) 9
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 294-295
..................  Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_rica
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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