Costa Rica
Central America · San José
Everything Mapfold knows about Costa Rica, and the 3 answers that pick it out of all 192 countries the game can hide.
Costa Rica in figures
- Capital
- San José
- Region
- Central America
- Area
- 51,100 km²
- Population
- 5,152,950
- Density
- 100.8 /km²
- Land neighbours
- 2
- Coast
- Has a coast
- Highest point
- 3,820 m
- Mean temperature
- 24.8 °C
- Life expectancy
- 81 years
- GDP per head
- US$ 19,970
- Urban
- 79.7 %
- Forest
- 60.4 %
Costa Rica in Mapfold
Every question in the game, and what Costa Rica answers to it. This is not a fact about Costa Rica so much as a fact about where it sits among the other 191 — which is the only kind of fact a deduction game runs on.
The shortest way to find Costa Rica
3 answers are enough to leave Costa Rica alone in the daylight, starting from all 192. Taking the largest available cut each time, which is what the game scores you against:
- 1
More than 60% of it is forest.
26 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 2
It is in the Americas.
5 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 3
Life expectancy there is above 75.
1 STILL IN DAYLIGHT
What makes Costa Rica unusual
More than 60% of it is forest.
26 of 192 countriesIt is in the Americas.
35 of 192 countriesMore than 70% of people live in towns and cities.
73 of 192 countries
Every Mapfold question, answered
All 35 questions Mapfold can put to the world, ordered by how much hearing this answer would narrow it.
- NATURE
More than 60% of it is forest.
26 of 192 countries - REGION
It is in the Americas.
35 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than 70% of people live in towns and cities.
73 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is above $12,000.
78 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Life expectancy there is above 75.
85 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 100,000 km².
85 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies west of 20°E.
95 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than ten million people live there.
97 of 192 countries - NATURE
More than 30% of it is forest.
100 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages warmer than 22 °C all year.
104 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is above 2,000 m.
118 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It runs wider than it is tall.
126 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders fewer than five countries.
132 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than 50 people live there per square kilometre.
133 of 192 countries - SIZE
It is bigger than Belgium.
135 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
It is thinner than 150 people per square kilometre.
136 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders at least two countries.
138 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Africa.
138 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 500,000 km².
141 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages over 12 °C all year.
143 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Asia.
146 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Europe.
148 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It touches the sea.
149 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies in the northern hemisphere.
154 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It has at least one land neighbour.
155 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than a million people live there.
156 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Its centre lies south of 45°N.
160 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than fifty million people live there.
161 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is below $40,000.
163 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Neither tropic crosses it.
165 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
It does not use the euro.
167 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is over 500 m.
171 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It spans less than 20° of longitude.
175 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Oceania.
179 of 192 countries - LOCATION
The equator does not cross it.
181 of 192 countries
How Costa Rica compares
- Bigger than Slovakia
- Smaller than Bosnia and Herzegovina
- More people than Kuwait
- Fewer people than Mauritania
- 126th largest of 192 by area
- 124th by population, of 192
Which countries border Costa Rica
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