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The Dominican Republic [a] is a 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 shares with Haiti, [15] [16] making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that is ...
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). [3]
The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic ( Spanish: Banco Central de la República Dominicana, BCRD) was established by the Monetary and Banking Law of 1947 as the central bank of the Dominican Republic, responsible for regulating the country's monetary and banking system. The Bank's headquarters is in Santo Domingo, and its current governor ...
The flag of the Dominican Republic represents the Dominican Republic and, together with the coat of arms and the national anthem, has the status of a national symbol. The blue on the flag stands for liberty, the white for salvation, and the red for the blood of heroes. [1] The civil flag follows the same design, but without the charge in the ...
Santo Domingo (2,769,589) [1] Least populous Province. Pedernales (34,375) The 2022 Dominican Republic census is the tenth Dominican Republic national census, and was held from the 10 to 23 of November 2022, during the presidency of Luis Abinader. [2] It was originally scheduled to conclude in 23 November, but, it was extended to the end of ...
San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic. / 18.41667°N 70.10556°W / 18.41667; -70.10556. San Cristóbal [4] is a city in the southern region of Dominican Republic. It is the municipal ( municipio) capital of the San Cristóbal province. The municipality is located in a valley at the foothills of the mountains belonging to the Cordillera ...
The first president was Pedro Santana, who was invested on 14 November 1844 by decision of the Central Government Junta. The current president of the Dominican Republic is Luis Abinader of the Modern Revolutionary Party, who won the 2020 Dominican Republic general election and took office on 16 August 2020 from Danilo Medina .
The Academia Dominicana de la Lengua [1] (variously translated as the Dominican Academy of Language, the Dominican Academy of the Language, the Dominican Academy of Letters, or glossed as the Dominican Academy of the Spanish Language; acronym ADL ) is the Dominican Republic 's correspondent academy of the Royal Spanish Academy.