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The Distrito Nacional is represented in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies on the same scale as a Province (a single Senator (Senador), plus one Deputy (Diputado) per 50,000 inhabitants). Its local government is the same as the provincial municipios , without the equivalent of a provincial tier of government.
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]
The provinces as the second level of political and administrative division contain at least two municipalities. The Distrito Nacional, which is neither a municipality nor a province, consists of only one municipality, Santo Domingo (Constitution: "the city of Santo Domingo de Guzmán is the Distrito Nacional" [5]).
Bella Vista is a sector or neighborhood in the city of Santo Domingo in the Distrito Nacional of the Dominican Republic. Bella Vista is in particular populated by individuals from the upper class . Sources
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
Rank Province Population % Area % Density Map 1: Santo Domingo: 2,374,370 25.1 1,302.2 2.7 1,823.35 30 2: Distrito Nacional: 965,040 10.2 91.6
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