A friend of mine toured Costa Rica for a week. The experience he shared of his visit to this beautiful country, intrigued me to know more about it and share.
Costa Rica is a small, quaint, tropical, southern country of the continent of the north America. The Republic of Costa Rica abolished Army in 1949 and said to have replaced with the army of teachers.
The literacy rate in Costa Rica is 94.9%,[2] one of the highest in Latin America.
There are many things unique and refreshing about Costa Rica:
- Costa Rica constitutionally abolished its army permanently in 1949, becoming the first and one of the few sovereign nations without a standing army.[7][8][9]
- Costa Rica has consistently been among the top-ranking Latin American countries for the Human Development Index (HDI), placing 62nd in the world as of 2012.[6]
- Costa Rica is known for its progressive environmental policies, being the only country to meet all five criteria established to measure environmental sustainability.[12]
- The NEF also ranked Costa Rica in 2009 as the greenest country in the world. In 2012, Costa Rica became the first country in the Americas to ban recreational hunting after the country’s legislature approved the popular measure by a wide margin.
It sounds to be a country worth visiting.
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica
Costa Rica is a small, quaint, tropical, southern country of the continent of the north America. The Republic of Costa Rica abolished Army in 1949 and said to have replaced with the army of teachers.
The literacy rate in Costa Rica is 94.9%,[2] one of the highest in Latin America.
There are many things unique and refreshing about Costa Rica:
- Costa Rica constitutionally abolished its army permanently in 1949, becoming the first and one of the few sovereign nations without a standing army.[7][8][9]
- Costa Rica has consistently been among the top-ranking Latin American countries for the Human Development Index (HDI), placing 62nd in the world as of 2012.[6]
- Costa Rica is known for its progressive environmental policies, being the only country to meet all five criteria established to measure environmental sustainability.[12]
- The NEF also ranked Costa Rica in 2009 as the greenest country in the world. In 2012, Costa Rica became the first country in the Americas to ban recreational hunting after the country’s legislature approved the popular measure by a wide margin.
It sounds to be a country worth visiting.
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica
