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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).
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic skyline. Santo Domingo may refer to Santo Domingo de Guzmán, the sole municipality of the Distrito Nacional, or the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo spread over several municipalities, which as such is not an administrative or political entity. The 2002 census does not give data for metropolitan areas.
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 ...
Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (1492–1795) – the island of Hispaniola came under Spanish tyranny starting with the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Most of the indigenous Taíno folk were wiped out by disease, enslavement, or war. Spanish reconquest of Santo Domingo (1808–1809) – war that resulted in España Boba
2015 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol; 2016 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol season; 2017 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol; 2018 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol; 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship; 2022 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship; 2022 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship; 2023 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship; 2024–25 LIDOM season; Alto Velo Island ...
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 Sierra de Bahoruco, called Massif de la Selle in Haiti. This southern group of mountains have a geology very different from the rest of the island. Llano Costero del Caribe (in English, "Caribbean Coastal Plain") is in the southeast of the island (and of the Dominican Republic). It is a large savanna east of Santo Domingo.
San José de Ocoa: San Cristóbal: El Valle [9] Elías Piña: San Juan: Enriquillo [10] Barahona: Bahoruco: Independencia: Pedernales: Este/Sureste Ozama [11] Distrito Nacional: Santo Domingo: Higüamo [12] Hato Mayor: Monte Plata: San Pedro de Macorís: Yuma [13] El Seibo: La Romana: La Altagracia