HaitiAbout Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a country in the Caribbean, one of the 35 countries of the Americas on GlobeQuizz. Its full official name is Dominican Republic. In Arabic, the name is written جمهورية الدومينيكان, and the capital سانتو دومينغو. Its geographic centre lies in the Northern and Western hemispheres.
The capital of the Dominican Republic is Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo lies at about 18° north and 70° west. The official language of the Dominican Republic is Spanish. Its currency is the Dominican Peso, with the symbol $ and the international code DOP.
The Dominican Republic covers about 48,671 square kilometres, which puts it 128th by area among the 195 countries on GlobeQuizz. It shares land borders with one country: Haiti. Other countries in the Caribbean include Cuba, the Bahamas, and Jamaica. To practise flags, capitals and currencies, play the Americas quiz on GlobeQuizz, which mixes the Dominican Republic with the other countries of the same region.