General info

Entity:
Costa Rica
Capital:
San Jose
Population (2008-07-01):
4,195,914 (CIA)
Area:
51,100 sq.km.
Country code:
cr
Region:
Central America

Costa Rica

Administrative units

provincia capital area (sq.km.) population
2000-06-26
census		 population
2005-07-01
projection
source: final results from census for provinces and preliminary census figures for cantons, from Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos, Costa Rica.
Alajuela Alajuela 9,757.53 716,286 793,746
Cartago Cartago 3,124.67 432,395 475,536
Guanacaste Liberia 10,140.71 264,238 292,438
Heredia Heredia 2,656.98 354,732 391,358
Limón Limón 9,188.52 339,295 382,835
Puntarenas Puntarenas 11,265.69 357,483 399,516
San José San José 4,965.90 1,345,750 1,480,140
total   51,100.00 3,810,179 4,215,569

Main cities

name population
2000-06-26
census		 population
2005-07-01
projection
San José 313,262 340,894
Alajuela 223,478 245,875
Cartago 132,006 144,836
Heredia 104,558 114,633
Puntarenas 102,783 113,927
Limón 90,325 101,505
source: preliminary census figures, from Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos, Costa Rica.
note: The agglomeration of San José counted 1,982,339 people in 2000.