🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
Time, holidays, currency and practical info for Dominican Republic.
Current time in Dominican Republic
America/Santo_Domingo · AST
Time zones in Dominican Republic
Upcoming public holidays in Dominican Republic
Cities in Dominican Republic
Other countries in Caribbean
At a glance
- Capital
- —
- Region
- Americas
- Subregion
- Caribbean
- Population
- 10,771,504
- Area
- 48,671 km²
- Currency
- DOP $
- Calling code
- +1809
- Driving side
- right
- Languages
- spa
- Internet TLD
- .do
About
Dominican Republic is a country on 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 nation by area after Cuba at 48,671 square kilometers (18,792 sq mi) and second-largest by population 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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