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Provincial capitals of Costa Rica

7 provincial capitals, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The provincial capitals

  1. 1San José1.5 M
  2. 2Heredia368 k
  3. 3Cartago232 k
  4. 4Alajuela197 k
  5. 5Puntarenas88 k
  6. 6Limón65 k
  7. 7Liberia59 k

Capitals of first-level administrative units (states, provinces, regions): the capital Wikidata records for the unit (P36), else the seat GeoNames records for it (PPLA); a second, summer or winter capital is left out. A national capital is in only where it is also its unit’s seat (Canberra for the Australian Capital Territory, Brasília for the Federal District), not where the unit has another capital (Ottawa: Toronto; Amsterdam: Haarlem). Costa Rica’s own list of its cities: the population of each urban area as Thomas Brinkhoff: City Population (citypopulation.de), from INEC Costa Rica, estimates counts it (Costa Rica: Urban Areas (calculation, 2020-06-30), 30 June 2020), the way the country ranks its cities. A city that is not one of the list’s urban areas of 10,000 people or more is left out. Metro area, urban centre and city proper rank the same cities by the worldwide measures instead, so they compare across borders. Sources: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), Thomas Brinkhoff: City Population, citypopulation.de, after INEC Costa Rica, estimates, 2020-06-30 (CC BY 3.0), Wikidata names and capitals (CC0).

On the map

Map of Provincial capitals of Costa Rica, 7 provincial capitals: each one marked on the globe

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