Nicoya

Nicoya is the main town of the , in . It has limited appeal for tourists but is a commercial center with more transportation connections than the small rural and beach towns of the region.
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  • City with about 33,300 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 120 metres (400 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code NCT
  • …is also known as “Nicoya de Nicoya”
  • Description: district in Nicoya canton, Guanacaste province, Costa Rica
  • Postal code: 50201

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nicoya Airport.
Aerodrome
is an airport serving the city of Nicoya in the of .

Nicoya

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Latitude
10.1492° or 10° 8′ 57″ north
Longitude
-85.4531° or 85° 27′ 11″ west
UN/LOCODE
CR NCT
Open location code
762P4GXW+MQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 790503307
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3622716
Wiki­data ID
Q2486629

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Nicoya” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نيكوجا”
  • Armenian: “Նիկոյա”
  • Asturian: “distritu de Nicoya”
  • Asturian: “Nicoya”
  • Catalan: “Nicoya, Costa Rica”
  • Catalan: “Nicoya”
  • Cebuano: “Nicoya”
  • Chinese: “尼科亚”
  • Chinese: “尼科亞”
  • Dutch: “Nicoya”
  • French: “Nicoya”
  • German: “Nicoya”
  • Greek: “Νικόγια”
  • Italian: “Nicoya”
  • Japanese: “ニコヤ”
  • Kotava: “Nicoya”
  • Lithuanian: “Nikoja”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nicoya”
  • Norwegian: “Nicoya”
  • Polish: “Nicoya (Kostaryka)”
  • Polish: “Nicoya”
  • Romanian: “Nicoya”
  • Russian: “Никоя”
  • Slovenian: “Nicoya”
  • Spanish: “Nicoya de Nicoya”
  • Spanish: “Nicoya”
  • Swedish: “Nicoya”
  • Ukrainian: “Нікоя”
  • Urdu: “نیکویا”
  • Volapük: “Nicoya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nicoya”

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Guanacaste: Highlights

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