Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is an island country on the eastern part of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared by two sovereign states. In the Antilles, the country is the second-largest by area after Cuba at 48,671 square kilometers (18,792 sq mi) and the second most populous after Haiti with approximately 11.4 million people in 2024, of whom 3.6 million reside in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city.
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- sugarcane
- bananas
- papayas
- plantains
- avocados
- rice
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| Santo Domingo capital | 2,201,941 |
| Santiago de los Caballeros | 1,200,000 |
| Santo Domingo Oeste | 701,269 |
| Santo Domingo Este | 700,000 |
| San Pedro de Macorís | 217,899 |
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tropical maritime; little seasonal temperature variation; seasonal variation in rainfall
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