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Nicoya Peninsula
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula
- Category: landform
- Location: Central Pacific, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
10° northLongitude
-85.4167° or 85° 25' westElevation
466 metres (1,529 feet)Open Location Code
762P2H2M+28GeoNames ID
3622713Wikidata ID
Q1415043Nicoya Peninsula Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Azerbaijani: Nikoya yarımadası
- Catalan: Península de Nicoya
- Cebuano: Península de Nicoya
- Chinese: 尼科亚半岛
- Chinese: 尼科亞半島
- Croatian: Nicoya
- Czech: Nicoya
- Czech: Nicoyský poloostrov
- Dutch: Nicoyaschiereiland
- Finnish: Nicoyan niemimaa
- French: Péninsule de Nicoya
- French: péninsule de Nicoya
- German: Nicoya-Halbinsel
- Greek: Χερσόνησος Νικόγια
- Hebrew: חצי האי ניקויה
- Hebrew: ניקויה (חצי אי)
- Hebrew: ניקויה, חצי אי
- Hebrew: ניקויה
- Italian: Penisola di Nicoya
- Japanese: ニコヤ半島
- Korean: 니코야 반도
- Lithuanian: Nikojos pusiasalis
- Norwegian: Nicoyahalvøya
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nicoyahalvøya
- Polish: Nicoya
- Polish: Półwysep Nicoya
- Portuguese: Península de Nicoya
- Russian: Никоя
- Serbo-Croatian: Nicoya
- Spanish: Nicoya
- Spanish: Peninsula de Nicoya
- Spanish: Península de Nicoya
- Swedish: Nicoyahalvön
- Tamil: நிகோயா மூவலந்தீவு
- Vietnamese: Bán đảo Nicoya
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Nicoya Peninsula. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.