Liberia

Liberia is the capital city of the province of . It is located about 220 km Northwest San Jose. After Mexico's War of Independence from Spain, the settlement of Guanacaste, as Liberia was known then, transitioned from being a town in the Partido de Nicoya of the Federal Republic of Central America to being part of Nicaragua and then Costa Rica.
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  • Type: City with 46,000 residents
  • Description: district in Liberia canton, and city of Guanacaste province, Costa Rica
  • Also known as: Liberia, Costa Rica” and “Liberia, Guanacaste

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Edgardo Baltodano Briceño.

Stadium
is a multi-use in Liberia, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Municipal Liberia.

Liberia

Latitude
10.6333° or 10° 38′ north
Longitude
-85.4363° or 85° 26′ 11″ west
Population
46,000
Elevation
148 metres (486 feet)
IATA airport code
LIR
United Nations Location Code
CR LIR
Open location code
762PJHM7+8F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 183802950
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3623076
Wiki­data ID
Q1387526
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Liberia” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: ليبيريا، كوستاريكا
  • Armenian: Լիբերիա
  • Asturian: distritu de Liberia
  • Asturian: Liberia
  • Basque: Liberia (Costa Rica)
  • Basque: Liberia
  • Belarusian: Лібэрыя
  • Bengali: লাইবেরিয়া
  • Catalan: Liberia
  • Cebuano: Liberia
  • Chinese: 利韋里亞
  • Chinese: 利韦里亚
  • Croatian: Liberia, Kostarika
  • Danish: Liberia
  • Dutch: Liberia
  • Egyptian Arabic: ليبيريا ، كوستا ريكا
  • Finnish: Liberia
  • French: Liberia
  • German: Liberia
  • Greek: Λιβερία
  • Greek: Λιμπέρια
  • Gujarati: લાઇબેરિયા
  • Hebrew: ליבריה
  • Hindi: लाइबेरिया
  • Hungarian: Liberia
  • Indonesian: Liberia
  • Italian: Liberia
  • Japanese: リベリア
  • Kannada: ಲೈಬೀರಿಯಾ
  • Korean: 리베리아
  • Kotava: Liberia (Costarika)
  • Kotava: Liberia
  • Latvian: Liberija
  • Latvian: Libērija
  • Lithuanian: Liberija
  • Malay: Liberia
  • Marathi: लायबेरिया
  • Nauru: Liberia
  • Northern Frisian: Liberia
  • Northern Sami: Liberia
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Liberia (Costa Rica)
  • Norwegian: Liberia
  • Polish: Liberia
  • Portuguese: Liberia, Costa Rica
  • Portuguese: Liberia
  • Quechua: Liberia
  • Romanian: Liberia, Costa Rica
  • Russian: Либерия
  • Serbo-Croatian: Liberia, Kostarika
  • Sinhala: ලයිබීරියාව
  • Slovenian: Liberia
  • Spanish: Liberia (Guanacaste)
  • Spanish: Liberia
  • Swedish: Liberia, Costa Rica
  • Swedish: Liberia
  • Tamil: லிபெரியா
  • Telugu: లైబీరియా
  • Thai: ลิเบเรีย
  • Turkish: Liberya
  • Ukrainian: Ліберія
  • Urdu: لیبیریا، کوسٹاریکا
  • Veps: Liberii
  • Vietnamese: Liberia
  • Volapük: Liberia
  • Waray (Philippines): Liberia, Costa Rica
  • Waray (Philippines): Liberia, Guanacaste
  • Liberia

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