Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic is a country in Caribbean, with its capital at Santo Domingo, and is home to roughly 11.4M people.
Spanish is the official language; the currency in circulation is Dominican peso ($); people from here are called Dominican.
- »It shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.
- »Pico Duarte is the highest peak in the Caribbean.
Dominican Republic has exactly one neighbour: Haiti to the west.
Santo Domingo was founded in 1496 and is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, with the first cathedral and first university in the New World.
48,498 km² (18,725 sq mi), 128th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Slovakia.
Population 11,427,557, 85th of 198 on file. That averages 236 per km² (610 per sq mi).
The only national flag with a Bible on it, open on the coat of arms to the Gospel of John. The white cross stands for salvation and divides the blue and red quarters.