← The interactive mapAll civilizations
Republic of Costa Rica
1838 – present
Sovereign stateNorth America
Stable Central American republic that abolished its army in 1948; independent of the federation from 1838.
Borders in 2026 · drawn from 4 sourced border frames
See it on the interactive map →
Borders over time
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Republic of Costa Rica —
the shape you scrub through changes in 1838 · 1897 · 1922 · 1934.
Further reading
-
The Ticos
Mavis Hiltunen Biesanz · 1998
Standard study of modern Costa Rican culture, society, and politics.
-
The History of Central America
Thomas Pearcy · 2005
Regional history situating Costa Rica among the modern Central American states.
-
Mamita Yunai
Carlos Luis Fallas · 1941 · fiction
The great Costa Rican social-realist novel, set among banana-plantation workers under United Fruit in the republic.
Sources