San Jose is a province of Costa Rica and lies like an island in the middle of all other provinces except Guanacaster. It has almost 1.5 million inhabitants on an area of 4960 km². The capital of the province and of Costa Rica is San Jose.
Regions
San José is divided into twenty cantons (capitals in brackets):
- Acosta (San Ignacio)
- Alajuelita (Alajuelita)
- aserric (aserric)
- Curridabata (Curridabata)
- desamparados (desamparados)
- dota (Santa Maria)
- Escazu (Escazu)
- goicoechea (Guadalupe)
- Leon Cortes (San Pablo)
- Montes de Oca (San Pedro)
- mora (Colon)
- Moravia (San Vicente)
- Perez Zeledon (San Isidro del General)
- puriscal (Santiago)
- San Jose (Canton) (San Jose)
- Santa Ana (Santa Ana)
- Tarrazu (San Marcos)
- Tibas (San Juan)
- Turrubares (San Pablo)
- Vasquez de Coronado (San Isidro)
The cantons are divided into 111 districts.