LIST OF CITIES IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

'Cities in the Dominican Republic', in accordance with the definition of urban population for purposes of the 2002 census ^[1], are the urban centers and seats (''cabeceras'' literally heads) of municipalities (''municipios'' singular ''municipio''), the second level political and administrative subdivisions of the country, or of municipal districts (''distritos municipal'') within them.

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Santo Domingo

Cities with population figures

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See also

References

External links

Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo may refer to Santo Dominigo de Guzmán, the sole municipality of the Distrito Nacional, or the metropolitan area of Santo Doming spread over several municipalities, which as such is not an administrative or political entity. The 2002 census does not give data for metropolitan areas. Sources give different figures for the metropolitan areas population as of 2002 ranging from 1,887,586^[2] to 2,054,516^[3] or 1,840,000 (2000)^[4]. As the law about the creation of the Santo Domingo province, split from the Distrito Nacional in 2001, does refer to the cities of Santo Dominigo de Guzmán, Santo Domingo Este, Santo Domingo Norte and Santo Domingo Oeste as former parts of the city of Santo Domingo for comparison the aggregated population of this cities is given as Santo Domingo (metropolitan) in the following table.^{[5] [6]}

Cities with population figures

The following is a table of cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants in the Dominican Republic. Population figures are as of the 2002 census. Cities which were at this time the seats of municipal districts and not municipalities are denoted with (D.M.).^[7] Administrative changes concerning the listed cities up to June 2006 are noted.^[8]

City	Province	Population	Notes June 2006
Santo Domingo (metropolitan)	Distrito Nacional, Santo Domingo	1887586	For comparison only
Santo Domingo de Guzmán	Distrito Nacional	913540
Santiago de los Caballeros	Santiago	507418	Two additional municipal districts
Santo Domingo Este	Santo Domingo	480749	One additional municipal district
Santo Domingo Norte	Santo Domingo	266987
Santo Domingo Oeste	Santo Domingo	226310
San Pedro de Macorís	San Pedro de Macorís	193713	One new municipality created
La Romana	La Romana	191303	One additional municipal district, also one new municipality created
Los Alcarrizos (D.M.)	Santo Domingo	166930	Municipality with two municipal districts
San Cristóbal	San Cristóbal	137422	One additional municipal district
San Francisco de Macorís	Duarte	122179
San Felipe de Puerto Plata	Puerto Plata	112036	One additional municipal district
Salvaleón de Higüey	La Altagracia	103502
Concepción de la Vega	La Vega	98386	One additional municipal district
Santa Cruz de Barahona	Barahona	74958	One additional municipal district
Bonao	Monseñor Nouel	72821	Three additional municipal districts
San Juan de la Maguana	San Juan	70969	Eight additional municipal districts
Baní	Peravia	61864	Four additional municipal districts
Bajos de Haina	San Cristóbal	61400
Moca	Espaillat	59174	Five additional municipal districts
Azua de Compostela	Azua	56453	Eight additional municipal districts
Mao	Valverde	47828
Boca Chica	Santo Domingo	46385	One additional municipal district
Cotuí	Sánchez Ramírez	42115	One additional municipal district
Esperanza	Valverde	41189	One additional municipal district
Villa Altagracia	San Cristóbal	36791	Three additional municipal districts
Hato Mayor del Rey	Hato Mayor	34006
Nagua	María Trinidad Sánchez	32035	Two additional municipal districts
Bisono	Santiago	29723
Jarabacoa	La Vega	27370	One additional municipal district
Constanza	La Vega	27090	One additional municipal district
Consuelo	San Pedro de Macorís	25034
Pedro Brand (D.M.)	Santo Domingo	22695	Municipality with two municipal districts
Santa Cruz del Seibo	El Seibo	22489	One additional municipal district
Tamboril	Santiago	21939
Las Matas de Farfán	San Juan	21271	One additional municipal district
San José de Ocoa	San José de Ocoa	21226	Two additional municipal districts
Bayaguana	Monte Plata	19351
Neyba	Baoruco	18305
Dajabón	Dajabón	16328	One additional municipal district
Sabana Grande de Boyá	Monte Plata	16291
San Ignacio de Sabaneta	Santiago Rodríguez	16270
Quisqueya	San Pedro de Macorís	15912
San Fernando de Monte Cristi	Monte Cristi	15629
Monte Plata	Monte Plata	14850	Two additional municipal districts
Maimón	Monseñor Nouel	14514
Sabana de la Mar	Hato Mayor	13495
La Victoria (D.M.)	Santo Domingo	13112
Cambita Garabitos	San Cristóbal	12519	One additional municipal district
Cabral	Barahona	12175
Duvergé	Independencia	12053	One additional municipal district
Salcedo	Salcedo	11994	One additional municipal district
San Antonio de Guerra (D.M.)	Santo Domingo	11553	Municipality with one municipal district
Yamasá	Monte Plata	11400
Comendador	Elías Piña	11391	Two additional municipal districts
Villa Vásquez	Monte Cristi	11353
Sánchez	Samaná	11058
Vicente Noble	Barahona	10848	Two additional municipal districts
San Gregorio de Nigua	San Cristóbal	10798
Samana	Samaná	10692	Three additional municipal districts
Sabana Yegua (D.M.)	Azua	10395	Municipality with two municipal districts
Pedernales	Pedernales	10339	One additional municipal district
La Mata (D.M.)	Sánchez Ramírez	10034	Municipality with two municipal districts

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See also

★ Municipalities of the Dominican Republic

References

1. Resultados Definitivos VIII Censo Poplación y Vivienda 2002 Resultados Generales Vol I Oficina Nacional de Estadística
2. Dominican Republic - City Population Thomas Brinkhoff - Citypopulation.de
3. Dominican Republic: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population Stefan Helders - World Gazetteer
4. World Urbanization Prospects - The 2005 Revision Population Database United Nations
Population Division
5. Ley No. 163-01 que crea la provincia de Santo Domingo, y modifica los Artículos 1 y 2 de la Ley No. 5220, sobre División Territorial de la República Dominicana. EL CONGRESO NACIONAL
6. MAPA POLITICO ADMINISTRATIVO DE LA PROVINCIA SANTO DOMINGO Oficina Nacional de Estadística
7. VIII Censo 2002 Poplación y Vivienda Oficina Nacional de Estadística
8. Listado de Codigos de Provincias, Municipio y Distritos Municipales, Actualizada a Junio 20 del 2006 Oficina Nacional de Estadistica, Departamento de Cartografia, Division de Limites y Linderos

External links

★ Oficina Nacional de Estadística, Statistics Portal of the Dominican Republic

★ Oficina Nacional de Estadística, Maps about the administrative division of the Dominican Republic, downloadable in PDF format

★ Federación Dominicana de Municipios - FEDOMU, Dominican federation of municipalities

★ World Gazetteer - Cities in the Dominican Republic

★ City Population - Dominican Republic