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The Dominican Republic[ a ] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti, [ 15 ][ 16 ] making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along ...
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 ...
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 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). The division of the country into provinces is laid down in the constitution (Title I, Section II, Article 5) [1 ...
Map of the Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo) and Haiti in 1921. In what was referred to as la danza de los millones, with the destruction of European sugar-beet farms during World War I, sugar prices rose to their highest level in history, from $5.50 in 1914 to $22.50 per pound in 1920.
Latin America and the Caribbean. 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 ...
Administrative divisions. Foreign relations. Dominican Republic portal. Other countries. v. t. e. 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 location of the Dominican Republic An enlargeable satellite image of the Dominican Republic An enlargeable map of the West Indies. The Greater Antilles. An enlargeable topographic map of the Island of Hispaniola An enlargeable relief map of the Dominican Republic, located on the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with Haiti.