Where is Costa Rica?

Costa Rica is located in Central America. It is part of the land bridge between the continents of North and South America. Costa Rica is bordered to the north with Nicaragua, and to the south with Panama. The east borders on the Caribbean Sea, and the west on the North Pacific Ocean. The Caribbean cost is 132 miles long, while the Pacific coast is 635 miles long. Costa Rica lies wholly within the tropics, just ten degrees north of the equator.