Costa Rica

The country calling code for Costa Rica is +506. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Costa Rica number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Costa Rica is assigned CR as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and CRI as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Costa Rica is .cr. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Costa Rica is the Costa Rican colón, with the ISO 4217 code CRC and the symbol ₡. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Costa Rica are quoted in CRC. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Costa Rica is -06:00, currently UTC-06:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Costa Rica is San José. Costa Rica sits in Americas, specifically the Central America subregion. Its approximate centre point is 10.00000000, -84.00000000. Traffic in Costa Rica drives on the right. Languages recorded for Costa Rica: Spanish.

Costa Rica shares a land border with 2 countries: Nicaragua and Panama. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.