With a $ 1. 92-billion-a-year tourism industry, Costa Rica stands as the most visited nation in the Central American region, with 1. 9 million foreign visitors in 2007, thus reaching a rate of foreign tourists per capita of 0. 46, one of the highest in the Caribbean Basin, and above other popular destinations such as Mexico ( 0. 21 ), Dominican Republic ( 0. 38 ), and Brazil ( 0. 03 ).

For example, it is used in French presidential, legislative, and cantonal elections, and also to elect the presidents of Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Uruguay, Zimbabwe — see: Table of voting systems by nation.

The state Legislature created the Alameda and Contra Costa Transit District in 1955, which still exists today as AC Transit, the third-largest bus-only transit system in the nation.

* Costa Rica has pledged to become a completely carbon-neutral nation by this date.

On 1 June 2007, he switched Costa Rica's diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) to the People's Republic of China, making Costa Rica the 167th nation in the world to do so.

The American Convention on Human Rights ( Pacto de San José de Costa Rica ), adopted in 1969 but only ratified by Argentina in 1984 immediately after the end of the National Reorganization Process, restricts abuse of the state of emergency by requiring any signatory nation declaring such a state to inform the other signatories of its circumstances and duration, and what rights are affected.

The Central American nation of Costa Rica aims to be fully carbon neutral by 2021.

In 1994, he was elected President of Costa Rica, as the nation ’ s youngest elected president of the 20th century.

Unwillingly, Costa Rica became too involved in the United States ' struggle to topple the Sandinistas and in an attempt to pull away, proclaimed Costa Rica as an active, neutral nation.

The locations are significant, according to his best biographer, because his parents came from a world of wide ambition that most Costa Ricans envied, and he was born in a nation that put a high value on his impeccable Spanish background.

After the United States established the School of the Americas in the Panama Canal Zone to train Latin American officers in Anti-Communist techniques, more Costa Rican " police " graduated from the School between 1950 and 1965 than did officers of any other hemispheric nation except Nicaragua .< sup id =" fn_8_back "> 8 </ sup >

Costa Ricans, ( costarricenses in Spanish ) also called ticos are from a multiethnic Spanish speaking nation in Central America called Costa Rica.

In addition, this nickname also arise from the beauty of Heredian women who some Costa Ricans say are the most beautiful in the nation.

As a member of the Southern California National Forensic League District, La Costa Canyon is ranked within the top four hundred speech and debate teams in the nation.

Having gained 50 caps for Portugal, Costa represented the nation at one World Cup and one European Championship.

Always as first-choice, Couto represented the nation at UEFA Euro 1996 – scoring the game's only goal for the eventual quarterfinalists in a group stage contest against Turkey – Euro 2000 and the 2002 FIFA World Cup, partnering former Porto teammate Jorge Costa in the last two tournaments, the latter of which ended in group stage exit.

* The Contra Costa College Speech and Debate Team, which is one of the top community college teams in the nation.

Costa has been an advocate of creating a high-speed rail system that would go up and down California as well as across the nation at speeds of 225 miles-per-hour.

Maria de Guadalupe Santiago was born near the village of the Kamekeri in the ( fictional ) South American nation of Costa Verde.

Matt Helm conducts a by-the-book assassination in the ( fictional ) Central American nation of Costa Verde.

He also played for his country on the 2006 World Cup Qualifyiers, including the historical game against Costa Rica, where Mexico won the away game in that nation for the first time in 40 years.

According to the 2011 census Kanpur district has a population of 4, 572, 951, roughly equal to the nation of Costa Rica or the US state of Louisiana.

By subduing disparate lesser groups the nation has, to some degree at least, broadened the capacity for individual liberty.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

He ascribes to the mercy of God the peace which this personal matter -- the assurance that he can physically sustain the burden of the office longer than any individual in the history of our nation has been able to do -- has brought him.

Certainly it is not necessary to repeat that the United States has no intention of interfering in the internal affairs of any nation ; ;

Since 1953 California has led the nation in enacting guarantees that public business shall be publicly conducted, but not until this year did the lawmakers in Sacramento plug the remaining loopholes in the Brown Act.

The planning division has embarked on the most complete and comprehensive state planning program in the nation.

In one sense it can be said that one of the most important Brown & Sharpe products over the years has been the men who began work with the company and subsequently came to places of industrial eminence throughout the nation and even abroad.

Boating has become a giant whose strides cover the entire nation from sea to shining sea.

President Kennedy has asked that we become a physically fit nation.

The time has come for citizens of all faiths to unite in an effort to remove this divisive and nettlesome issue from the political and social life of our nation.

Statistically this has represented a loss to the nation, although one must admit that in an individual case the decision in retrospect may have been a wise one.

Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

The decision by the Illinois Supreme Court has been cited by numerous other courts in the nation.

Ethnologists in these countries tended to focus on differentiating among local ethnolinguistic groups, documenting local folk culture, and representing the prehistory of what has become a nation through various forms of public education ( eg, museums of several kinds ).

With a population of about 30 million, it has an area of, making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world.

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, beginning on 23 September 1991 the official name of the nation has been the Republic of Armenia ( Armenian: Hayastani Hanrapetut ' yun ).

Chinese has in which the first element sounds like the accented second syllable in " America " ( and the second element means " nation ").

This district includes notable schools such as the magnet Liberal Arts and Science Academy, which, by test scores, has always been within the top thirty high schools in the nation.

Arbor Day in the Philippines has been institutionalized to be observed every June 25 throughout the nation by planting trees and ornamental plants and other forms of relevant activities.

It would portend the eventual surrender of everything that has made us, and keeps us still, a nation.

Australian football has attracted more overall interest among Australians ( as measured by the Sweeney Sports report ) than any other football code, and, when compared with all sports throughout the nation, has consistently ranked first in the winter reports, and most recently third behind cricket and swimming in summer.

Heschel argues for the view of Hebrew prophets as receivers of the " Divine Pathos ," of the wrath and sorrow of God over his nation that has forsaken him.