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