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Dominican Republic
| Location |
In the Greater Antilles, between Caribbean Sea, N Atlantic Ocean |
| Latitude and longitude |
19 00 N, 70 40 W |
| Sovereignty |
Independent |
| United Nations member? |
Yes |
| Political status notes |
Shares island of Hispanola with
Haiti |
| Population |
8,960,000 |
| Census notes |
est. June 30, 2004 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
48,511 |
| Capital |
Santo Domingo |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| Constitución
Política de la República Dominicana (Spanish), from the Political
Database of the Americas, Georgetown University |
Other legal documents online
|
| Legislation
of the Dominican Republic, links from the World Legal
Information Institute |
| Suprema
Corte de Justicía, República Dominicana (Spanish), providing
access to the Constitution, codes and other legal documents (appears to
work better in Internet Explorer than in Netscape) |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Association of Caribbean States, Total
Population |
| Country
profile: Dominican Republic, from the BBC News |
| Dominican
Republic, Background Notes, from the U.S. Department of State
(2003) |
| Dominican
Republic,
globalEDGE Country Insight from Michigan State University |
| Dominican
Republic, U.S. Library of Congress Country Study (1989) |
| Dominican
Republic, from Moycé R. Polanco |
| Dominican
Republic, from the World Bank Group |
| Embassy
of the Dominican Republic in the United States, Information Service
Center |
| Fishery
Country Profile--República Dominicana, from the Food and
Agriculture Organization (Spanish) |
| Independent
States in the World, Office of the Geographer and Global Issues,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State,
Washington, D.C. |
| Oficina Nacional de Estadística
(Spanish) |
| Presidencia
de la República Dominicana |
| United Kingdom, Foreign & Commonwealth
Office, Country
Profile: Dominican Republic |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
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