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UTC−08:00 – Pacific Time zone: the Pacific coast states, the Idaho Panhandle and most of Nevada and Oregon UTC−07:00 – Mountain Time zone: most of Idaho, part of Oregon, and the Mountain states plus western parts of some adjacent states UTC−06:00 – Central Time zone: a large area spanning from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes
Costa Rica shares a 313-kilometre (194-mile) border with Nicaragua to the north, and a 348-km border with Panama to the south. Costa Rica claims an exclusive economic zone of 574,725 km 2 (221,903 sq mi) with 200 nautical miles (370.4 km; 230.2 mi) and a territorial sea of 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi). Land use: Arable land: 4.8%.
Age of the bedrock underlying North America, from red (oldest) to blue, green, yellow (newest). Seventy percent of North America is underlain by the Laurentia craton, [5] which is exposed as the Canadian Shield in much of central and eastern Canada around the Hudson Bay, and as far south as the U.S. states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Costa Rica has one time zone, which is located in the Central Time Zone, 6 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [1] Costa Rica keeps the same time offset all days of the year, so it does not have daylight saving time. dst starts on 2 February 2025 and ends on 5 October 2025.
Southernmost point — Cocos Island, Costa Rica Westernmost point — The westernmost point depends on the definition of "westernmost". If following the International Date Line , it would be Cape Wrangell on Attu Island , Alaska , United States 52°55′28″N 172°28′22″E / 52.92444°N 172.47278°E / 52.92444; 172.47278 ...
Costa Rica ratified the convention on 23 August 1977. [3] It has four World Heritage Sites and one site on the tentative list. [3] The first site in Costa Rica listed was the Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park, in 1983. In 1990, the site was expanded to include the sites across the border in Panama.
Border with Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul, just north of Barra del Chuy (Uruguay) 33°45′S Lesotho: Quthing District: 30°40′S Namibia: near Onseepkans: 28°58′S French Polynesia: Southern Rock, Marotiri: 27°55′S Paraguay: Yacyretá Island: 27°43′S Eswatini (Swaziland) near Lavumisa: 27°19′S Botswana: Bokspits: 26°54′S Mozambique
The warm deserts of North America include The Mojave Basin and Range, the Sonoran desert, and the Chihuahuan desert. These areas have a tropical desert climate, and are known as the hottest and driest place on the continent. This is due to the continental interior location on the leeward side of mountains, with constant subtropical high pressures.