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{{Short description|First-level administrative divisions of Costa Rica}}

[[File:Costa Rica provinces named.png|300px|thumb|right|The seven provinces of [[Costa Rica]]]]

According to '''Article 168'''<ref name="constitution">{{cite web|url=http://www.constitution.org/cons/costaric.htm|title=CONSTITUCION POLITICA DE LA REPUBLICA DE COSTA RICA 1949|publisher=constitution.org|access-date=18 January 2014}}</ref> of the '''Constitution of [[Costa Rica]]''', the political divisions are officially classified into three tiers of sub-national entities.

==Overview==
The [[Constitution of Costa Rica]] states, ''"For Public Administration purposes, the national territory is divided into provinces, these into cantons and cantons into districts."'' The country consists of seven [[province]]s (''provincias''), 84 [[Cantons of Costa Rica|cantons]] (''cantones''), and 489 [[Districts of Costa Rica|districts]] (''distritos'').<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.correos.go.cr/codigo_postal/ | title= Código Postal | language= es |website=Correos de Costa Rica | access-date= 24 April 2011 | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110415154602/http://www.correos.go.cr/codigo_postal/ | archive-date= 15 April 2011 }}</ref>

==List of provinces==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffbbbb"
! Flag
! Province
! Map
! Capital
! Area (km<sup>2</sup>)
! Population
!'''Density (km'''<sup>2</sup>''')'''
!Human Development Index 2015<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hdi.globaldatalab.org/areadata/shdi/|title=Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab|website=hdi.globaldatalab.org|language=en|access-date=2018-09-15}}</ref>
!GDP per capita 2023 (PPP 2015 dollar)<ref>{{Cite news |title=Tellusant (2023): TelluBase—Costa Rica Fact Sheet. Boston. |url=https://tellusant.com/repo/tb/tellubase_factsheet_cri.pdf}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Bandera_de_la_Provincia_de_Alajuela.svg|60px]]
| [[Alajuela Province|Alajuela]]
| [[File:Alajuela in Costa Rica.svg|60px]]
| [[Alajuela]]
| 9,757
| 885,571
|90.8
|0.778
|19,100
|-
| [[File:Bandera_de_la_Provincia_de_Cartago.svg|60px]]
| [[Cartago Province|Cartago]]
| [[File:Cartago in Costa Rica.svg|60px]]
| [[Cartago, Costa Rica|Cartago]]
| 3,124
| 490,903
|156.2
|0.786
|20,000
|-
| [[File:Bandera_de_la_Provincia_de_Guanacaste.svg|60px]]
| [[Guanacaste Province|Guanacaste]]
| [[File:Guanacaste in Costa Rica.svg|60px]]
| [[Liberia, Costa Rica|Liberia]]
| 10,141
| 354,154
|34.9
|0.755
|17,500
|-
| [[File:Bandera_de_la_Provincia_de_Heredia.svg|60px]]
| [[Heredia Province|Heredia]]
| [[File:Heredia in Costa Rica.svg|60px]]
| [[Heredia, Costa Rica|Heredia]]
| 2,657
| 433,677
|163.2
|0.807
|19,900
|-
| [[File:Bandera_de_la_Provincia_de_Limón.svg|60px]]
| [[Limón Province|Limón]]
| [[File:Limon in Costa Rica.svg|60px]]
| [[Limón|Puerto Limón]]
| 9,189
| 386,862
|42.1
|0.735
|16,300
|-
| [[File:Bandera_de_la_Provincia_de_Puntarenas.svg|60px]]
| [[Puntarenas Province|Puntarenas]]
| [[File:Puntarenas in Costa Rica.svg|60px]]
| [[Puntarenas]]
| 11,266
| 410,929
|36.5
|0.741
|17,400
|-
| [[File:Bandera_de_la_Provincia_de_San_José.svg|60px]]
| [[San José Province|San José]]
| [[File:San Jose in Costa Rica.svg|60px]]
| [[San José, Costa Rica|San José]]
| 4,966
| 1,404,242
|282.8
|0.792
|19,800
|-
|}
{{Politics of Costa Rica}}

==See also==
{{Portal|Costa Rica|Government}}
*[[ISO 3166-2:CR]]
*[[Cantons of Costa Rica]]
*[[Districts of Costa Rica]]
*[[List of Costa Rican provinces by Human Development Index]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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