Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo sits in Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic and is identified as a major city. Santo Domingo maps to 18.471°, -69.892° — squarely within the tropical belt. Recent open-data figures place its population at about 965,040. Based on its tropical position, residents likely encounter warm temperatures throughout the year with pronounced wet and dry seasons. Population density therefore averages about 741 per km², a medium-density urban fabric. Public records associate its founding with 1496. Such a low elevation typically indicates a coastal, deltaic, or alluvial setting. The city sits very close to sea level (14 m) and covers an extensive 1,302 km². The locality observes Q5762 as its time zone. Additional figures on demographics, climate, geography and points of interest appear in the sections that follow, all drawn from open public datasets.

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