Dominican Republic

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
DO
ISO alpha-3
DOM
ISO numeric
214
FIPS 10-4
DR
GeoNames ID
3508796

Key facts

Capital
Santo Domingo
Area
48,730 km²
Population
10,627,165
Currency
Peso (DOP)
Calling code
+1-809 and 1-829
Top-level domain
.do
Official languages
es-DO

Continent

Name
North America
Code
NA
In this dataset
42 countries

North America in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
19
Longitude
-70.66667
Min latitude
17.54555898600006
Min longitude
-72.0098376059999
Max latitude
19.93768952000005
Max longitude
-68.32860266799992

Boundary

Dominican Republic

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/DO?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 48730,
    "capital": "Santo Domingo",
    "continent_code": "NA",
    "currency_code": "DOP",
    "iso3_code": "DOM",
    "iso_code": "DO",
    "name": "Dominican Republic",
    "population": 10627165
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/DO/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=DO
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=DO
  • /v1/timezones?country=DO
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Name in other languages

Arabic
جمهورية الدومينيكان
Chinese
多米尼加共和国
English
Dominican Republic
French
République dominicaine
German
Dominikanische Republik
Hindi
डोमिनिकन गणराज्य
Italian
Repubblica Dominicana
Japanese
ドミニカ共和国
Korean
도미니카 공화국
Portuguese
República Dominicana
Russian
Доминиканская Республика
Spanish
República Dominicana
Total language variants
199

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
America/Santo_Domingo UTC-04:00 UTC-04:00

Postal code format

Format
#####
Pattern
^(\d{5})$

First-level administrative regions

  • Provincia de Santo Domingo
  • Distrito Nacional
  • Santiago
  • San Cristóbal
  • La Vega
  • Puerto Plata
  • San Pedro de Macorís
  • Provincia Duarte
  • San Juan
  • Provincia Espaillat
  • La Romana
  • Azua
  • Provincia de La Altagracia
  • Monte Plata
  • Barahona
  • Peravia
  • Monseñor Nouel
  • Valverde
  • Provincia Sánchez Ramírez
  • Provincia María Trinidad Sánchez
  • Monte Cristi
  • Provincia de Hermanas Mirabal
  • Samaná Province
  • Baoruco

24 of 32 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
Santo Domingo 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
La Romana 208,437
Bella Vista 175,683
San Cristóbal 154,040
Puerto Plata 146,000
San Francisco de Macorís 124,763

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
7,938
First-level regions
32
Postal codes
544
Name languages
199
Boundary polygon
Yes

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