Shares Hispaniola with Haiti, and contains both the highest peak and the lowest point in the Caribbean.
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Dominican Rep.
Dominican Republic ยท Repรบblica Dominicana
North America
ยท Caribbean
0Population
48.67Kkmยฒ of land
$8.28KGDP / person
Santo DomingoCapital
- ISO codes
- DO ยท DOM
- Density
- 221 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Dominican peso (DOP)
- Dial code
- +1
- Internet domain
- .do
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 19.1040ยฐ N, 70.6540ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Dominican
- UN region
- Americas ยท Caribbean
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $88.94B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 1
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By the numbers
How Dominican Rep. stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
84th
of 242 ยท 0.14% of world population
Land area
131st
of 242 ยท 0.03% of world land
GDP per person
114th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
58th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Dominican Rep.
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 10,738,958 people, the 84th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.14 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 48,671 kmยฒ, making it the 131st largest country here - about 5.3 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 221 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Santo Domingo, at 18.47ยฐ N, 69.90ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 2,154,000.
Shares land borders with 1 country: Haiti.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Santo Domingo.
The currency is the Dominican peso (DOP, symbol $).
The official language is Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Santo Domingo
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UTCโ04:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Santo Domingo
Distrito Nacional
18.4720ยฐ N, 69.9020ยฐ W
2.15M
2
Santiago
Santiago
19.5000ยฐ N, 70.6700ยฐ W
1.55M
Land neighbours
1 country shares a border with Dominican Rep..