Costa Rica
Costa Rica uses the telephone country calling code +506 for international calls, alongside the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code CR and alpha-3 code CRI for global identification. Its country-code top-level domain (ccTLD), .cr, is used for local website registration, while the Costa Rican colón (currency code CRC) serves as the official monetary unit in financial and business transactions. These standardized identifiers are essential for routing telecommunications, establishing web presence, and conducting commerce or banking within the country. Together, they ensure precise, universally recognized references to Costa Rica in digital, logistical, and economic systems across the Americas and worldwide.
- Calling code
- +506
- ISO alpha-2
- CR
- ISO alpha-3
- CRI
- ISO numeric
- 188
- ccTLD
- .cr
- Currency
- CRCCosta Rican colón (CRC)
- Region
- Americas
- Capital
- San José
- Time zones
- America/Costa_Rica
- Postal format
- 5-Digits - NNNNN
How to call Costa Rica
From outside Costa Rica, dial your international access prefix, then +506, then the national number. Drop the leading trunk zero when the destination numbering plan requires it.
+506 [area or mobile code] [local number]