Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica ranks 88th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, and Vietnam. Memorable people born in present day Costa Rica include Óscar Arias, Chavela Vargas, and Laura Chinchilla. Memorable people who died in Costa Rica include Violeta Chamorro, Francisco Morazán, and Prince Sigismund of Prussia. 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 Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, as well as maritime border with Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around five million in a land area of nearly 51,180 km2 (19,760 sq mi). An estimated 352,381 people live in the capital and largest city, San José, with around two million people in the surrounding metropolitan area. Read more on Wikipedia