Region boundarySelectedHover a region for its name
Profile
Background and figures as recorded in the CIA World Factbook.
The Taino -- indigenous inhabitants of Hispaniola prior to the arrival of Europeans -- divided the island now known as the Dominican Republic and Haiti into five chiefdoms and territories. Christopher COLUMBUS explored and claimed the island on his first voyage in 1492; it became a springboard for Spanish conquest of the Caribbean and the American mainland. In 1697, Spain recognized French dominion over the western third of the island, which in 1804 became Haiti.
Capital
Santo Domingo
Government
presidential republic
Population
10,899,292
Area
48,670 sq km
Location
Caribbean, eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Haiti
Climate
tropical maritime; little seasonal temperature variation; seasonal variation in rainfall
Natural resources
nickel; bauxite; gold; silver; arable land
Languages
Spanish (official)
Religions
Evangelical 50.2%; Roman Catholic 30.1%; none 18.5%; unspecified 1.2%
Independence
27 February 1844 (from Haiti)
Administrative divisions
31 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia), 1 district* (distrito);
Currency
Dominican pesos (DOP)
Export partners
USA 52%; Switzerland 7%; Haiti 6%; China 5%…
Import partners
USA 40%; China 18%; Brazil 4%; Spain 4%…
Source: CIA World Factbook — a work of the US government, in the public domain
Subdivisions
32 on file. Listed because operations, tax and reporting are usually organised at this level rather than nationally.
They are different things, done by different entities, and one is never
a route to the other.
Roarcry · the church
Give
A donation to the congregation. It is not repaid, earns nothing, and carries no claim on
anything. Roarcry is not a registered 501(c)(3), so give as a gift rather than for a write-off.
A gift named for Dominican Republic is a restricted gift: recorded against Dominican Republic and spent there.
If it cannot be spent there within a year it is pooled into the general fund
and spent wherever it is needed most. That is a term of the gift, said here
so that giving is agreeing to it.
A subscription for Class B units. It is at risk, it is not tax-deductible, it is not a
donation, and you can lose all of it. Open only to verified accredited investors.
One fund covers every country on the map, on one set of terms. No country has its own
vehicle, its own minimum or its own return.
The church is not the issuer, not a guarantor and not a party to any
subscription. No donation to the church confers any interest in the fund.
Before you travel
This site publishes no safety assessment of its own. Conditions change
faster than any page, so these link to the governments that issue advisories and revise them.
Currency
Dominican pesos (DOP)
Languages
Spanish (official)
Government
presidential republic
Climate
tropical maritime; little seasonal temperature variation; seasonal variation in rainfall