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Costa Rica (literally 'rich coast'), officially the Republic of Costa Rica (Spanish: Costa Rica or Spanish: República de Costa Rica, IPA: [reˈpuβlika ðe ˈkosta ˈrika]), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the south-southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, and the Caribbean Sea to the east
Argentina, [C] officially the Argentine Republic, [A] [D] is a country in the southern half of South America.It covers an area of 2,780,085 km 2 (1,073,397 sq mi), [B] making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world.
According to the Montevideo Convention, a state must have a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other states. [4] The following states are all members of the United Nations [ 5 ] and current or former members of the Union of South American Nations .
This is an alphabetical list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas.It comprises three regions, Northern America (Canada and the United States), the Caribbean (cultural region of the English, French, Dutch, and Creole speaking countries located on the Caribbean Sea) and Latin America (nations that speak Spanish and Portuguese).
Rioplatense region – Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and parts of Paraguay. This region, due to extensive immigration from Europe, mainly from Italy, Spain, and Portugal maintains a very European culture in terms of cuisine, art, architecture, and dialect. Many Italian loanwords are used in the dialect of the region, Rioplatense Spanish. Mapuche ...
Costa Rica's distance from the capital of the captaincy in Guatemala, its legal prohibition under mercantilist Spanish law from trade with its southern neighbor Panama, then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (i.e. Colombia), and lack of resources such as gold and silver, made Costa Rica into a poor, isolated, and sparsely-inhabited region ...
Puerto Rico, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean territory of the United States, acquired from the Spanish Empire following its defeat in the 1898 Spanish–American War, is usually included. This definition excludes the predominantly Protestant English-speaking and Dutch-speaking regions, as well as French-speaking predominantly Catholic regions.
Latin American and the Caribbean countries by GDP per capita PPP (2019). This is a list of Latin American and the Caribbean countries by gross domestic product at purchasing power parity in international dollars according to the International Monetary Fund's estimates in the October 2023 World Economic Outlook database.