Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic ranks 114th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Nepal, Somalia, and Uganda. Memorable people born in present day Dominican Republic include Rafael Trujillo, Théodore Chassériau, and Joaquín Balaguer. Memorable people who died in Dominican Republic include Rafael Trujillo, Ray Liotta, and Alonso de Ojeda. Dominican Republic has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and explorers.

The Dominican Republic is a country in the Caribbean located on the 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. Read more on Wikipedia