Liberia
Liberia is the capital city of the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Estadio Edgardo Baltodano Briceño
Stadium
Estadio Edgardo Baltodano Briceño is a multi-use stadium in Liberia, Costa Rica. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Municipal Liberia.
Liberia
- Categories: capital city, district of Costa Rica, and locality
- Location: Liberia, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
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Latitude
10.6333° or 10° 38′ northLongitude
-85.4363° or 85° 26′ 11″ westPopulation
46,000Elevation
148 metres (486 feet)IATA airport code
LIRUnited Nations Location Code
CR LIROpen location code
762PJHM7+8FOpenStreetMap ID
node 183802950OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3623076Wikidata ID
Q1387526
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Satellite Map
Discover Liberia from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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