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Cities with population figures. The following is a table of cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants in the Dominican Republic. Population figures are as of the 2010 census. Santo Domingo. Santiago. San Pedro de Macoris. San Francisco de Macoris. Azua. Punta Cana.
The municipalities of the Dominican Republic are, after the regions and the provinces, the third level of the political and administrative division of the Dominican Republic . The division of provinces into municipalities ( municipios) is established in the Constitution [1] and further regulated by Law 5220 on the Territorial Division of the ...
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]
Ciudad Colonial (Santo Domingo) / 18.483°N 69.917°W / 18.483; -69.917. Ciudad Colonial (Spanish for "Colonial City") is the historic central neighborhood of the Dominican Republic 's capital Santo Domingo. It is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the Americas. The area has been declared a World ...
Distrito Nacional. 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. Before October 16, 2001, the Distrito Nacional was much larger, including what is ...
For an alternate area figure of 48,730 km 2 (18,810 sq mi), calling code 809 and Internet TLD: [ 4] The Dominican Republic[ a] is a North American country 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 ...
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 ...
Santo Domingo Este is a municipality and the provincial capital of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic. It has one municipal district (distrito municipal), San Luis. Santo Domingo Este is across the Ozama River which divides the east and west sections of metropolitan Santo Domingo. This eastern side is more residential and less ...