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The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana) is a country in the West Indies that occupies the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola. It has an area of 48,670 km 2, including offshore islands. The land border shared with Haiti, which occupies the western three-eighths of the island, [1] [2] is 376 km long. [3]
The Dominican Republic [a] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared ...
Map of the Dominican Republic. Cities in the Dominican Republic, in accordance with the definition of urban population for purposes of the 2002 census, [1] are the urban centers and seats (cabeceras literally heads) of municipalities (municipios singular municipio), the sec level political and administrative subdivisions of the country, or of municipal districts (distritos municipales) within ...
Provinces of the Dominican Republic map. The Dominican Republic is divided into thirty-one provincias (provinces; singular provincia), while the national capital, Santo Domingo, is contained within its own Distrito Nacional ("National District"; "D.N." on the map below).
English: Location map Dominican Republic with Provinces, Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 105 %. Geographic limits of the map: Geographic limits of the map: N: 20.3° N
The provinces of the Dominican Republic Monte Cristi coastline. An enlargeable basic map of the Dominican Republic Boca Chica (in Santo Domingo Province), about 30km east of Santo Domingo. Santa Bárbara de Samaná, capital of Samaná Province. Provinces of the Dominican Republic – in alphabetical order: Distrito Azua; Distrito Baoruco
The Dominican Republic is divided into three macro-regions, which are in turn divided into ten regions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1858 the country was divided in 3 departments: Cibao (North), Ozama (Southwest), and Seybo (Southeast).
The division of provinces into municipalities is established in the Constitution [1] and further regulated by Law 5220 on the Territorial Division of the Dominican Republic. [2] It was enacted in 1959 and has been frequently amended to create new provinces, municipalities and lower-level administrative units.