Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica ranks 88th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Senegal, Albania, and Hong Kong. Memorable people born in present day Costa Rica include Óscar Arias, Chavela Vargas, and José Figueres Ferrer. Memorable people who died in Costa Rica include José Figueres Ferrer, Francisco Morazán, and Adolfo Díaz. Costa Rica has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many politicians and soccer players.

Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, and maritime border with Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around five million in a land area of 51,060 km2 (19,710 sq mi). An estimated 333,980 people live in the capital and largest city, San José, with around two million people in the surrounding metropolitan area. Read more on Wikipedia