HOW TO PRONOUNCE
Costa Rica
/ˌkoʊ.stə ˈɹi.kə/
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What does Costa Rica mean?
proper noun
- A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Costa Rica.
- A barangay of Batuan, Masbate, Philippines.
- Several barangays of Almagro, Samar, Philippines.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌkoʊ.stə ˈɹi.kə/
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Another heading was “Argentine,” another “Costa Rica,” and another “San Paulo,” each with pages of signs and figures after it.
Within Latin America, Mexico has completed bilateral free trade agreements with Chile and Costa Rica, and is continuing negotiations with Colombia and Venezuela for a trilateral deal in addition to holding trade discussions with various other nations.
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He married Beryl Garcia, one of the beauties of Costa Rica, and, having purloined a considerable sum of public money, he changed his name to Vandeleur and fled to England, where he established a school in the east of Yorkshire.
The shells of the Atlantic and those of the Pacific, the copper of Lake Superior, the mica of the Alleghanies, and the obsidian of Mexico lie together beneath the tumuli of Ohio, and quite recently Mr. Putnam exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries a collection of jade celts and ornaments, some from Nicaragua, others from Costa Rica, and a hatchet with both edges sharpened from Michigan.