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Santo Domingo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. [7]
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The Distrito Nacional (Spanish pronunciation: [disˈtɾito nasjoˈnal]; D.N.) is a subdivision of the Dominican Republic enclosing the capital Santo Domingo.It is not in any of the provinces, but in practice, it acts as a province on its own.
The provinces are divided into municipalities , which are the second–level political and administrative subdivisions of the country. [1] The Distrito Nacional was created in 1936. Prior to this, the Distrito Nacional was the old Santo Domingo Province, in existence since the country's independence in 1844.
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Constituent country of the United Kingdom 51.5 London: United Kingdom: Also the capital of the constituent country of England −51.68 Stanley: Falkland Islands: British Overseas Territory: 52.23 Warsaw: Poland: 52.37 Amsterdam: Netherlands: The Dutch constitution refers to Amsterdam as the "capital". The Dutch government is located in The Hague
Rank Metropolitan area Population Year Country 1 Santo Domingo: 3,798,699 [1]: 2022 Dominican Republic 2 Havana: 3,349,290 [2]: 2023 Cuba 3 Port-au-Prince: 2,618,894 ...
The Distrito Nacional contains the capital of the country Santo Domingo and has special status equal to the provinces. Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is DO, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the Dominican Republic. The second part is two digits: 01: district; 02–27: provinces as of late 1970s