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The Constitution of Costa Rica states, "For Public Administration purposes, the national territory is divided into provinces, these into cantons and cantons into districts." The country consists of 7 provinces (provincias), 84 cantons (cantones), and 489 districts (distritos). [2]
According to the Political Constitution of Costa Rica of 1949, in article 168, [1] the territorial division of Costa Rica is organized by law into three types of subnational entity: For the purposes of the Public Administration, the national territory is divided into provinces, these in cantons and cantons in districts. Costa Rica is divided into:
3 districts [at] 1 sui generis collectivity (collectivité sui generis): New Caledonia: 3 provinces: 30+ communes: 1 overseas territory (territoire d'outre-mer): French Southern and Antarctic Lands [au] 5 districts Gabon: Unitary 9 provinces: 49 departments (départements) 152 cantons: 52 communes: 29 arrondissements: Gambia: Unitary 5 regions ...
Map of Central America with Costa Rica highlighted. Costa Rica is administratively divided into seven provinces which are subdivided into 84 cantons, and these are further subdivided into districts. Cantons are the only administrative division in Costa Rica that possess local government in the form of municipalities.
Provinces 1 Alajuela, 2 Cartago, 3 Guanacaste, 4 Heredia, 5 Limón, 6 Puntarenas, 7 San José. Costa Rica is composed of seven provinces, which in turn are divided into 82 cantons (Spanish: cantón, plural cantones), each of which is directed by a mayor. Mayors are chosen democratically every four years by each canton.
Postal codes in Costa Rica are five-digit numeric, and were introduced in March 2007; they are associated with and identify a unique district. The first digit denotes one of the seven provinces, the 2nd and 3rd refer to the 82 cantons (unique within the province), the 4th and 5th the 488 districts (unique within the canton). [2]
Countries (in blue) which have signed Free Trade Agreements with Costa Rica (from Costa Rica) Image 12 Stone spheres created by the Diquis culture at the National Museum of Costa Rica . The sphere is the icon of the country's cultural identity.
ISO 3166-2:CR is the entry for Costa Rica in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. Currently for Costa Rica, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for ...