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Costa Rica, officially called the Republic of Costa Rica, is a sovereign nation, organized as a unitary presidential republic composed of 7 provinces. Located in Central America, it has a territory with a total area of 51 100 km². It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, Panama to the southeast and the Pacific Ocean to the west. As for the maritime borders, it borders Panama, Nicaragua, Colombia and Ecuador, with 5,003,393 inhabitants according to its latest demographic projection. The capital, political and economic center is San José, and its official language is Spanish.
With a solid and long-lasting democracy, among the most functional in the world, and an effective capacity for social mobility that allows it to achieve a high overall progress in relation to the distribution and size of its economy, Costa Rica is one of the the most stable countries in the Americas, rated relatively well in all development and competitiveness indices, and this is a demilitarized nation of its own free will since 1948 and has several cutting-edge environmental policies that, Added to a set of favorable socioeconomic factors, they grant a high level of prosperity according to the Legatum Institute, as well as being considered the most sustainable and happiest society in the world for a decade according to the New Economics Foundation. In parallel, the country is currently facing significant development challenges related to the poor state and capacity to improve its road and transport infrastructure, a high fiscal deficit, the sustainability and effectiveness of its welfare state, the stagnation in poverty and the unemployment, the tendency to increase in its delinquency and inequality and deep ecological problems related to harmful agricultural practices, bad waste management and contamination of bodies of water.