Tag: Dominican Republic

SANTO DOMINGO According to thesciencetutor, the capital of the country is the city of Santo Domingo. It is the oldest city in the New World founded by Europeans. It was founded in 1496. Santo Domingo is located on the south coast of the country. The oldest part of Santo Domingo – “Colonial City” – Declared […]

The state system is a presidential republic. The 1966 Constitution is in force. in force. Administratively, the country is divided into 31 provinces (Azua, Ato Mayor, Baoruco, Barahona, Valverde, Dajabon, Duarte, Independencia, La Al Tagracia, La Vega, La Romana, Maria Trinidad Sanchez, Monsignor Nuell, Montecristi, Monte Plata, Pedernales, Peravia, Puerto Plata, Salcedo, Samana, San Cristobal, […]

Population The demographic dynamics have been characterized, in recent decades, by a high annual increase, which, although progressively decreased since the 1970s, remained in the 1990s around 20 ‰. An intense process of urbanization has occurred since the 1980s: the population of cities has risen from 50 % in 1980 to 63 % in 1997. […]

State of insular Central America, it occupies less than two thirds of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles group. At the 2002 census the population was 8,562,541 residents. The demographic dynamics remains characterized by a high annual increase, which, although progressively decreasing, it is maintained in the period 2000-2005 equal to ‘ 1.5 […]

Demography and economic geography . – State of insular Central America, occupying two thirds of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles group. According to a 2014 UNDESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs) estimate, the country is populated by 10,528,954 residents. (9,445,281 at the 2010 census), mostly young and mulatto. Just […]

Economy and energy According to healthinclude, the Dominican Republic aims at the modernization of its infrastructures and the deepening of international trade networks but, at the same time, its economy is held back by elements that hinder the creation of a competitive system: corruption, poverty and vulnerability to external circumstances. The international crisis of 2008, […]

According to health-beauty-guides, the Dominican Republic is located on the island of Hispaniola, east of the state of Haiti. The latter, having obtained independence from France in 1804, conquered the Dominican part of the island in 1822 and maintained control until 1844, when the Dominicans defeated the Haitians by sanctioning their sovereignty over the eastern […]

Dominican Republic is a state of Central America, which occupies the eastern part of the island of Hispaniola, located between Cuba and Puerto Rico. For the physical characteristics ➔ Hispaniola. Population With the arrival of the Spaniards, the indigenous residents, perhaps 100,000 (Taino, of the Aruachi group, and Caribi), were practically exterminated and then replaced […]

Seat of the first Spanish colonization in the New World (due to events prior to the 18th century ➔ Hispaniola), the colony, commonly called Santo Domingo from the name of its capital, grew from a few thousand units in the early 18th century to about 100,000 by one. century later, while remaining much less prosperous […]