Map of Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 19.0° N, 70.7° W. It shares land borders with 1 country — Haiti — and also has its own coastline. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Dominican Republic is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Dominican Republic shares land frontiers with the following 1 country. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Dominican Republic covers about 48,671 km² (18,792 sq mi). That makes it the 128th-largest country in the world by area and the 10th-largest in North America, larger by area than 13 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 10,771,504, the 88th-largest in the world and the 6th-largest in North America, accounting for about 1.8% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Dominican Republic has an average population density of about 221 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 6th by population and 10th by area.

The seat of government is Santo Domingo, and the official currency is the Dominican peso (DOP, $), and the main official language is Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-04:00.

Dominican Republic carries the ISO country codes DO and DOM, dials on the international calling code +1 and uses the .do internet domain.

Dominican Republic shares its land borders with 1 country, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Haiti (capital Port-au-Prince, about 11,867,032 people).

By area, Dominican Republic is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 0 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 19.0° N, 70.7° W and opens at zoom level 7, framing Dominican Republic within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Santo Domingo. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Dominican Republic lies about 2,109 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Dominican Republic keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-04:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -04:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Dominican peso (DOP, $).

The official language is Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +1 and websites commonly use the .do internet domain.

In short, Dominican Republic is a coastal country in North America, sharing land borders with 1 country. Its capital is Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic has a population of about 10,771,504 and covers around 48,671 km² (18,792 sq mi), ranking it 88th in the world by population and 128th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Dominican Republic.

The flag of the Dominican Republic is divided into four rectangles by a centered white cross that extends to the edges of the field and bears the national coat of arms in its center. The upper hoist-side and lower fly-side rectangles are blue and the lower hoist-side and upper fly-side rectangles are red.

The flag of Dominican Republic is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.