SANTO DOMINGO OESTE

'Santo Domingo Oeste' is a municipality of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic.[1]
As of the 2002 census the municipality had 280,912 inhabitants, 226,310 living in the city itself and 54,602 in its rural districts (''Secciones''). [2]
For comparison with other municipalities and municipal districts see the list of municipalities and municipal districts of the Dominican Republic.
Santo Domingo Oeste was created as municiplaty in 2001 by law 163-01 splitting the Santo Domingo province from the Distrito Nacional including parts of metropolitan Santo Domingo west of the DR-1 (''Autopista Duarte''). [3]

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1. 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
2. VIII Censo 2002 Poplación y Vivienda Oficina Nacional de Estadística
3. 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


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