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It is the second-largest nation in the Antilles by area (after Cuba) at 48,671 square kilometers (18,792 sq mi), and second-largest by population, with approximately 11.4 million people in 2024, of whom approximately 3.6 million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city.
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The Dominican Republic is a country on the island of...
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El país alcanzó la primera independencia en 1821, pero fue invadido por el vecino Haití en 1822. Tras la victoria obtenida en la guerra de la independencia dominicana en 1844, los dominicanos experimentaron varias luchas, en su mayoría internas, y también un breve regreso de la dominación española (1861-1865).
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The island of Hispaniola was discovered by Christopher Columbus on December 5th, 1492, but the first time that he saw part of the present Dominican Republic was on January 4th, 1493 when he saw a headland that he named Monte Cristi ("Mountain of Christ"). That mountain is called now El Morro and is near the city of Monte Cristi. From Monte Cristi, ...
The Dominican Republic is a presidential democratic republic. The government is divided in three branches: the Executive, the Legislative and the Judiciary. The Executive branch is made up of the President, the Vice President and the Ministers who are called Secretaries of State. The President is chief of state and head of government and is elected...
The Dominican Republic is a constitutional democracy ruled by a president. The president is elected every 4 years. The current president is Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona, of the PRM. There are 3 important political partiesin the Dominican Republic: 1. PRD: the Dominican Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Dominicano). The PRD is a s...
There are several mountain chains in the Dominican Republic. The four main chains, from North to South, are: 1. Cordillera Septentrional(in English, "Northern mountain range"), close to the Atlantic Ocean. 2. Cordillera Central (in English, "Central mountain range") that continues into northern Haiti where it is called Massif du Nord. The highest m...
The Dominican Republic has a total population, estimated for July 2009, of 9,650,054 inhabitants, for a densityof 236.30 inhabitants per km². About 64% of Dominicans live in cities and towns and 87% of people that are 15 years old or more can read and write. The two largest cities are Santo Domingo(the capital city) with 1,817,754 inhabitants, and ...
The Dominican Republic is divided into 31 provinces. The national capital Santo Domingo de Guzmán is in the Distrito Nationalthat is like a province and elects one Senator. The provinces are:
The Dominican Republic has a mixed economy based mainly on agriculture, services (including tourism and finance), trade and money sent from the many Dominicans that live in other countries (United States, Europe). Agricultural production (mainly sugarcane, with smaller amounts of coffee, cacao, and tobacco) was the main economic activity but now is...
The culture of the Dominican Republic, like in other Caribbean countries, is a mix of Taíno, African and European (mainly Spanish) cultures. There are not many Taíno traditions in the modern Dominican culture; many places keep their Taíno names: Dajabón, Bánica, Haina, Yaque, Samaná, etc. Also many objects, plants and animals have a Taíno origin an...
Notes: 1. The non-working holidays are not moved to another day. 2. If a movable holiday falls on Saturday, Sunday or Monday then it is not moved to another day. If it falls on Tuesday or Wednesday, the holiday is moved to the previous Monday. If it falls on Thursday or Friday, the holiday is moved to the next Monday.
The Dominican Republic is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north. Geographically, the Dominican Republic is part of the North American continent. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti, making Hispaniola ...
It is the second-largest nation in the Antilles by area (after Cuba) at 48,671 square kilometers (18,792 sq mi), and second-largest by population, with approximately 11.4 million people in 2024, of whom approximately 3.6 million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city.
Dominican Republic portal. v. t. e. The recorded history of the Dominican Republic began in 1492 when the Genoa -born navigator Christopher Columbus, working for the Crown of Castile, happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean.
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The city's Colonial Zone was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. [8] [9] Santo Domingo was called Ciudad Trujillo ( Spanish pronunciation: [sjuˈðað tɾuˈxiʝo] ), from 1936 to 1961, after the Dominican Republic's dictator, Rafael Trujillo, named the capital after himself.
