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The city was briefly captured by Haitian rebels in 1801, recovered by France in 1802, endured a failed invasion from Haiti in 1805, and was once again reclaimed by Spain in 1809. In 1821, Santo Domingo became the capital of an independent nation called the Republic of Spanish Haiti after the Criollo bourgeois within the country, led by José ...
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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.
Asia: Yangon was the capital until 2006. [12] See also: List of capitals of Myanmar. N'Djamena Chad: Africa: New Delhi India: Asia: Calcutta was the capital of India until 1911 during the British Raj. Ngerulmud Palau: Oceania: Self-governing in free association with the United States. Koror City was the capital until 2006. Niamey Niger: Africa ...
The capital, Santo Domingo, is located on the south coast. The Dominican Republic's shores are washed by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and the Caribbean Sea to the south. The Mona Passage, a channel about 130 km wide, separates the country (and Hispaniola) from Puerto Rico. [5]
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The Greater Antilles is considered part of Latin America. With a population of 38 million, it makes up 6% of Latin America's total population. The capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, with a population of over 2 million, is the largest city in the Greater
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