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Capital: Santo Domingo
Languages: Spanish
Ethnic Groups: Mixed 73%, white 16%, black 11%
Religions: Roman Catholic 95%
Monetary Unit: Peso (DOP 214)

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The Dominican Republic, (Spanish: República Dominicana, IPA [re'puβlika domini'kana]) is a country located on the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, bordering Haiti. Hispaniola is the second-largest of the Greater Antilles islands, and lies west of Puerto Rico and east of Cuba and Jamaica. A legacy of unsettled, mostly non-representative rule lasted for much of the 20th century; the move towards representative democracy has improved vastly since the death of military dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo in 1961. Dominicans sometimes refer to their country as Quisqueya, a name for Hispaniola used by indigenous Taíno people meaning "high land", referring to the highest portion of the hisponiola island. The Dominican Republic is not to be confused with Dominica, another Caribbean country...more
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Originally posted at 7:25PM, 29 September 2006 PDT (permalink)
worldwidewandering edited this topic 51 months ago.