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.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »It shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.
- »Pico Duarte is the highest peak in the Caribbean.
> BORDERS_
Dominican Republic has exactly one neighbour: Haiti to the west.
> THE CAPITAL_
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.
> SCALE_
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 FLAG_
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.