State

Dominican Republic

island sovereign state in the Caribbean Sea

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1844–1945
Founded
1844
Capital
Santo Domingo
Languages
Spanish

Overview

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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All rulers (18)

  1. José María Caminero1844
  2. José Antonio Salcedo1863–1864
  3. Pedro Guillermo1865
  4. Benigno Filomeno de Rojas1865
  5. Marcos Antonio Cabral1876
  6. Jacinto de Castro1878
  7. Fernando Arturo de Meriño1880–1882
  8. Ulises Heureaux1882–1884
  9. Francisco Gregorio Billini1884–1885
  10. Ulises Heureaux1887–1889
  11. Ulises Heureaux1889–1899
  12. Manuel María Gautier1889
  13. Ramón Cáceres1906–1911
  14. José Bordas Valdés1913–1914
  15. Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra1914–1916
  16. Horacio Vásquez1924–1930
  17. Rafael Trujillo1930–1938
  18. Rafael Trujillo1942–1952

Records (19)

  1. 1495 — Battle of Vega RealBattle
  2. 1586 — Battle of Santo DomingoBattle
  3. 1655 — Siege of Santo DomingoSiege
  4. 1660 — Battle of SantiagoBattle
  5. 1800 — Battle of Puerto Plata HarborNaval battle
  6. 1805 — Siege of Santo DomingoSiege
  7. 1805 — Battle of La EmboscadaBattle
  8. 1808–1809 — Siege of Santo DomingoSiege
  9. 1844–1856 — War of Dominican IndependenceWar
  10. 1844 — Battle of Santiago (1844)Battle
  11. 1844 — Battle of AzuaBattle
  12. 1844 — Battle of Fuente del RodeoBattle
  13. 1845 — Battle of EstrelletaBattle
  14. 1849 — Siege of AzuaSiege
  15. 1855 — Battle of SantoméBattle
  16. 1863 — Grito de CapotilloRebellion
  17. 1863 — Battle of SantiagoBattle
  18. 1911–1912 — Dominican Civil War of 1911–12War
  19. 1914 — Dominican Civil War of 1914War

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), HCED (CC0) and Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0); overview excerpted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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