San José
San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica. The undisputed cultural and economic center of Costa Rica's central valley, where most of the population lives, San José is also the most important transportation hub for domestic travel even though the international airport is in Alajuela.Notable Places in the Area
National Theatre of Costa Rica
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The 1,140-seat National Theatre of Costa Rica is Costa Rica's national theatre, located in the central section of San José.
Biblioteca Nacional "Miguel Obregón Lizano"
Photo: Gerd Wiechmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
La Biblioteca Nacional "Miguel Obregón Lizano", also known as the Biblioteca Nacional de Costa Rica is the national library of Costa Rica in San Jose.
Museo del Jade
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The Museo del Jade is an archaeological museum in San José, Costa Rica.
Localities in the Area
San Sebastián
Photo: ArquiWHAT, Public domain.
San Sebastián is the eleventh district of the San José canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.
Hatillo
Hatillo is the tenth district of the San José canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.Uruca
Uruca is the seventh district of the San José canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.San José
- Type: City with 342,000 residents
- Description: capital of Costa Rica
- Categories: capital city, big city, administrative territorial entity, largest city and locality
- Location: Hospital, San José, San José Province, Central Valley, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
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Latitude
9.9325° or 9° 55' 57" northLongitude
-84.0796° or 84° 4' 47" westPopulation
342,000Elevation
1,161 metres (3,809 feet)IATA airport code
SJOUnited Nations Location Code
CR SJOOpen Location Code
66XQWWMC+25OpenStreetMap ID
node 197698100OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3621849Wikidata ID
Q3070San José Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: San José
- Abkhazian: Сан-Хосе
- Achinese: San José
- Afar: San Xose
- Afrikaans: San José, Costa Rica
- Albanian: San Hose
- Albanian: San José
- Amharic: ሳን ሆዜ
- Amharic: ሳን ሆዜ፣ ኮስታ ሪካ
- Arabic: San José, Costa Rica
- Arabic: سان خوسيه
- Arabic: سان خوسيه، كوستاريكا
- Aragonese: San José
- Armenian: Սան Խոսե
- Asturian: San José
- Asturian: San Xosé
- Aymara: San Jusiy
- Azerbaijani: San-Xose
- Balinese: San José, Kosta Rika
- Basque: San Jose
- Basque: San José
- Belarusian: Сан-Хасэ
- Bengali: সানজোসে
- Bengali: স্যান হোসে, কোস্টা রিকা
- Bengali: স্যান হোসে
- Bosnian: San Jose, Kostarika
- Bosnian: San Jose
- Bosnian: San José
- Breton: San José
- Bulgarian: Сан Хосе
- Catalan: San José
- Cebuano: San José, Costa Rica
- Chechen: Сан-Хосе (Коста-Рика)
- Chechen: Сан-Хосе
- Chinese: San José
- Chinese: 圣何塞
- Chinese: 聖荷西
- Croatian: San José, Kostarika
- Croatian: San José
- Czech: San José
- Danish: San José
- Dutch: San José
- Egyptian Arabic: سان خوسيه, كوستاريكا
- English: San Jose
- English: San José, Costa Rica
- Esperanto: San-Joseo
- Estonian: San José
- Fiji Hindi: San José
- Finnish: San José
- French: San Jose
- French: San José
- French: San José (Costa Rica)
- Galician: San José
- Galician: San Xosé, Costa Rica
- Galician: San Xosé
- Georgian: სან-ხოსე
- German: San Jose
- German: San José
- German: San José (Costa Rica)
- Greek: Σαν Χοσέ
- Gujarati: સેન હોસે
- Haitian: San Jozé
- Hakka Chinese: San José
- Hausa: San José
- Hebrew: סאן חוסה
- Hebrew: סן חוסה
- Hindi: सान होज़े
- Hindi: सैन जोस
- Hungarian: San José
- Hungarian: San José de Costa Rica
- Icelandic: San José
- Ido: San Jose
- Iloko: San José, Costa Rica
- Indonesian: San José, Costa Rica
- Indonesian: San José, Kosta Rika
- Indonesian: San José
- Interlingue: San José
- Irish: San José, Cósta Ríce
- Italian: San José
- Jamaican Creole English: San Ose
- Japanese: サンホセ
- Kabyle: San José
- Kannada: ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ಹೋಸೆ
- Kara-Kalpak: San Xose
- Kazakh: 'Қасиетті Жүсіп' қаласы
- Kazakh: Сан Хосе
- Kazakh: Сан Хосе қаласы
- Korean: 산호세
- Korean: 싼호세
- Ladino: San José
- Lao: San José, Costa Rica
- Latin: Urbs Sancti Iosephi in Costarica
- Latvian: Sanhosē
- Ligurian: San José
- Lingala: San José
- Lithuanian: San Chosė
- Livvi: San-Hose
- Lombard: San José
- Macedonian: Сан Хозе
- Macedonian: Сан Хосе
- Malagasy: San José, Costa Rica
- Malay: San Jose
- Malay: San José
- Malayalam: സാൻ ഹോസെ, കോസ്റ്റ റീക
- Maltese: San Jose
- Maltese: San Josè
- Maltese: San José
- Marathi: सान होजे, कोस्टा रिका
- Marathi: सान होजे
- Min Dong Chinese: San José
- Min Nan Chinese: San José (Costa Rica)
- Mingrelian: სან-ხოსე
- Moksha: Сан-Хосэ
- Moksha: Сан Хосэ
- Mongolian: Сан-Хосе
- Moroccan Arabic: سان خوصي
- Nauru: San José
- Northern Frisian: San José (Costa Rica)
- Northern Frisian: San José
- Northern Sami: San José
- Norwegian: San José
- Norwegian Bokmål: San José
- Norwegian Nynorsk: San José i Costa Rica
- Novial: San José
- Occitan (post 1500): San José
- Ossetian: Сан-Хосе
- Panjabi: ਸਾਨ ਹੋਸੇ
- Papiamento: San Jose
- Persian: سان خوزه
- Persian: سن خوزه، کاستاریکا
- Piemontese: San José
- Polish: San José
- Portuguese: San Jose
- Portuguese: San José
- Portuguese: San José, Costa Rica
- Portuguese: São José
- Portuguese: São José, Costa Rica
- Quechua: San José
- Romanian: San José, Costa Rica
- Romanian: San José
- Russian: Сан-Хосе
- Sardinian: San José (Costa Rica)
- Sardinian: San José
- Scots: San Jose
- Scots: San José, Costa Rica
- Scots: San José
- Scottish Gaelic: San José, Costa Rica
- Serbian: Сан Хосе
- Serbo-Croatian: San José, Kostarika
- Serbo-Croatian: San José
- Shona: San José
- Silesian: San José
- Sinhala: සැන් ජොසේ
- Slovak: San José
- Slovenian: San Jose
- Slovenian: San José
- Spanish: Chepe
- Spanish: SanJo
- Spanish: San Jose
- Spanish: San José
- Spanish: San José (Costa Rica)
- Swahili: San Jose
- Swedish: San Jose
- Swedish: San José, Costa Rica
- Swedish: San José
- Swiss German: San José (Costa Rica)
- Swiss German: San José
- Tagalog: San José, Costa Rica
- Tajik: Сан-Хосе (Коста-Рика)
- Tajik: Сан-Хосе
- Tajik: Сан Ҳосе
- Tamil: சான் ஒசே, கோஸ்ட்டா ரிக்கா
- Tamil: சான் ஹொசே, கோஸ்ட்டா ரிக்கா
- Tamil: சான் ஹொசே
- Tamil: ஸேன் ஹோஸே, கோஸ்டா ரிகா
- Tatar: Сан-Хосе (Коста-Рика)
- Tatar: Сан-Хосе
- Telugu: సాన్ హోసె
- Thai: ซันโฮเซ
- Thai: ซานโฮเซ
- Tibetan: སན་ཇོ་སེ།
- Tosk Albanian: San José
- Turkish: San José, Kosta Rika
- Turkish: San José
- Turkmen: San Hose
- Udmurt: Сан-Хосе (Коста-Рика)
- Udmurt: Сан-Хосе
- Uighur: سان خوسې
- Ukrainian: Сан-Хосе
- Urdu: سان خوزے، کوسٹاریکا
- Urdu: سان خوسے، کوستا ریکا
- Urdu: سان ہوزے
- Uzbek: San-Xose
- Uzbek: San-xose
- Uzbek: San Xose
- Venetian: San José
- Veps: San Hose
- Vietnamese: San Jose
- Vietnamese: San José, Costa Rica
- Vietnamese: San José
- Volapük: San José
- Waray (Philippines): San José, Costa Rica
- Welsh: San José, Costa Rica
- Western Frisian: San José
- Western Panjabi: سان جوز
- Western Panjabi: سان ہوزے, کوسٹاریکا
- Wu Chinese: 圣何塞
- Yakut: Сан Хосе
- Yoruba: San José, Kóstá Rikà
- Yue Chinese: 聖荷西 (哥斯達黎加)
- Yue Chinese: 聖荷西
- San-Jose
- Villa Nueva de la Boca del Monte de Nuestro Señor San José
- 圣何塞(哥斯达黎加)
Other Places Named San José
Localities in the Area
- Centro CatedralNeighbourhood
- Centro MercedNeighbourhood
- DolorosaNeighbourhood
- Centro CarmenNeighbourhood
- Centro HospitalNeighbourhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. 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 San José. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.