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👥 Costa Rican Provinces by Population

Population of the seven provinces.

📅 2022📏 million people7 entries🇨🇷 See all of this country’s rankings →
  1. San José1.40M
  2. Alajuela0.89M
  3. Cartago0.49M
  4. Heredia0.43M
  5. Puntarenas0.41M
  6. Limón0.39M
  7. Guanacaste0.35M
Stems start at zero, so the length of each stem is the entry’s value.
1
San José
1.40M
2
Alajuela
0.89M
3
Cartago
0.49M
4
Heredia
0.43M
5
Puntarenas
0.41M
6
Limón
0.39M
7
Guanacaste
0.35M

Highlights

Within Costa Rica, San José ranks first in 2022 with 1.40M, followed by Alajuela (0.89M) and Cartago (0.49M).

San José is 1.6 times higher than Alajuela, the runner-up.

Source: INEC Costa Rica, 2022 census (via Wikipedia), 2022. Unit: million people.

Source: INEC Costa Rica, 2022 census (via Wikipedia) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia); underlying data © the cited publisher · fetched Oct 13, 2026