|Republic of Costa Rica República de Costa Rica (Spanish)
|Anthem: "Noble patria, tu hermosa bandera" (Spanish) "Noble
motherland, your beautiful flag" and largest city |Recognised
regional languages| |Ethnic groups (2011)| |Government||Unitary
presidential constitutional republic| |-||1st Vice-
President||Alfio Piva| |-||2nd Vice-President||Luis Liberman|
|-||from Spain||September 15, 1821| |-||from Mexicoa||July 1,
1823| |-||from United Provinces of Central America |March 21,
1847| |-||Recognized by Spain||May 10, 1850|
|-||Constitution||November 7, 1949| |-||Total||51,100 km2
(128th) 19,653 sq mi |GDP (PPP)||2011 estimate| |GDP
(nominal)||2011 estimate| high · 62nd |Currency||Costa Rican
colón ( |Time zone||CST (UTC−6)| |Drives on the||right| |ISO
3166 code||CR| |a.||First Mexican Empire.| Costa Rica (i/ /,
meaning "rich coast" in Spanish), officially the Republic of
Costa Rica (Spanish: Costa Rica or República de Costa Rica,
pronounced: [reˈpuβlika ðe ˈkosta ˈrika]), is a country in
Central America, border