🇨🇷 Costa Rica 7 administrative divisions
7 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 109 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- CR · CRI · 188
- Capital
- San Jose
- Continent
- North America
- Currency
- CRC — Costa Rican colon
- Calling code
- +506
- Internet domain
- .cr
- Divisions
- 7
- Cities and towns
- 109
Divisions
The 7 divisions of Costa Rica
7 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puntarenas Province | CR-P | 37 | 500,166 |
| San Jose Province | CR-SJ | 20 | 1,601,167 |
| Guanacaste Province | CR-G | 15 | 412,808 |
| Alajuela Province | CR-A | 13 | 1,035,464 |
| Limon Province | CR-L | 12 | 470,383 |
| Cartago Province | CR-C | 8 | 545,092 |
| Heredia Province | CR-H | 4 | 479,117 |
A further 0 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of Costa Rica
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/CR.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/CR/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.