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Dominica is a island country. It is referred to as the "Nature Island of the Caribbean" due to its spectacular, lush, and varied flora and fauna, which are protected by an extensive natural park system.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Roseau and Morne Trois Pitons National Park.

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is the capital city of Dominica and has many restaurants, small shops and wonderful views of the mountains and the Caribbean Sea.

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The Morne Trois Pitions National Park is in Dominica. The park is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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is the second largest town in Dominica, with 3,630 inhabitants. It is located on the shore of a natural Harbor, Prince Rupert Bay, in on the north-west coast of Dominica.

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is the largest settlement of in northeastern Dominica. The village has a population of 2,676 people, and is home to a Fisheries Complex as well as the island's main airport.

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Scotts Head is a village on the southwest coast of Dominica, in . In 2001, its population was 721. Predominantly a fishing village, Scotts Head overlooks Bay, which is protected as the Soufrière Scotts Head Marine Reserve.

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is a village in northeastern Dominica. Along with , the area has a population of 495, and was used as a filming location for 2006's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

Dominica

Latitude of center
15.418° or 15° 25′ 5″ north
Longitude of center
-61.346° or 61° 20′ 46″ west
Population
72,500
Area
291 miles² (754 km²)
Elevation
1,588 feet (484 metres)
Capital
Currency
Dollar (XCD)
Phone code
.dm
Internet domain
+1-767
IATA airport code
DOM
United Nations Location Code
DM DOM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424297496
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3575830
Wiki­data ID
Q784
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Dominica” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Доминика”
  • Afrikaans: “Dominica”
  • Akan: “Dɔmeneka”
  • Albanian: “Domenika”
  • Albanian: “Dominika”
  • Albanian: “Dominikë”
  • Amharic: “ዶመኒካ”
  • Amharic: “ዶሚኒካ”
  • Amis: “Dominica republic”
  • Amis: “Dominica”
  • Angika: “डोमिनिका”
  • Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: “Domineeka”
  • Arabic: “دومينيكا”
  • Aragonese: “Dominica”
  • Armenian: “Դոմինիկա”
  • Arpitan: “Domenica”
  • Assamese: “ড’মিনিকা”
  • Asturian: “Dominica”
  • Atayal: “Dominica”
  • Aymara: “Duminika”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dominika”
  • Balinese: “Dominika”
  • Bambara: “Dɔminiki”
  • Bashkir: “Доминика”
  • Basque: “Dominika”
  • Bavarian: “Dominica”
  • Belarusian: “Дамініка”
  • Bengali: “ডমিনিকা”
  • Bengali: “ডোমিনিকা”
  • Bengali: “ডোমিন্ইকা”
  • Bengali: “ডোমিন্‌ইকা”
  • Betawi: “Dominika”
  • Bhojpuri: “डोमिनिका”
  • Bishnupriya: “ডোমিনিকা”
  • Bislama: “Dominika”
  • Bosnian: “Dominika”
  • Breton: “Dominica”
  • Breton: “Dominika”
  • Bulgarian: “Доминика”
  • Burmese: “ဒိုမီနီကာ”
  • Burmese: “ဒိုမီနီကာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Dominica”
  • Cebuano: “Dominica”
  • Central Bikol: “Dominika”
  • Central Kurdish: “دۆمینیکا”
  • Chavacano: “Dominica”
  • Chechen: “Доминика”
  • Cherokee: “ᏙᎻᏂᎧ”
  • Chinese: “Dominica”
  • Chinese: “多米尼克”
  • Chinese: “多米尼加”
  • Cornish: “Dominika”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Dominika”
  • Croatian: “Dominika”
  • Czech: “Dominika”
  • Dagbani: “Dominica”
  • Danish: “Dominica”
  • Dhivehi: “ޑޮމިނިކާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Dominika”
  • Dotyali: “डोमिनिका”
  • Dutch: “DM”
  • Dutch: “DMA”
  • Dutch: “Dominica”
  • Dutch: “Gemenebest Dominica”
  • Dzongkha: “ཌོ་མི་ནི་ཀ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Доминика”
  • Eastern Mari: “Доминике”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دومينيكا”
  • Erzya: “Доминика”
  • Esperanto: “Dominiko”
  • Estonian: “Dominica”
  • Ewe: “Dominica”
  • Ewe: “Dominika nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Dominica”
  • Faroese: “Dominika”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Dominica”
  • Finnish: “Dominica”
  • French: “dm”
  • French: “DM”
  • French: “Dominica”
  • French: “Dominique”
  • French: “Isle de la Dominique”
  • French: “le Commonwealth de Dominique”
  • Fulah: “Dominika”
  • Gagauz: “Dominika”
  • Galician: “Dominica”
  • Ganda: “Dominika”
  • Georgian: “დომინიკა”
  • German: “Dominica”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Dominica”
  • Gilaki: “دؤمينيکا”
  • Goan Konkani: “Dominica”
  • Goan Konkani: “डॉमिनिका”
  • Gothic: “𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌹𐌺𐌰”
  • Greek: “Δομινίκα”
  • Greek: “Δομίνικα”
  • Greek: “Κοινοπολιτεία της Δομινίκας”
  • Greek: “Ντομινίκα”
  • Greek: “Ντομίνικα”
  • Guarani: “Ndominíka”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Dominik (péyi)”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Dominik”
  • Gujarati: “ડોમિનિકા”
  • Haitian: “Dominik”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Dominica”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tô-mí-nì-kâ”
  • Hausa: “Dominika”
  • Hebrew: “דומיניקה”
  • Hindi: “डोमिनिक”
  • Hindi: “डोमिनिका”
  • Hungarian: “Dominika”
  • Hungarian: “Dominikai Közösség”
  • Icelandic: “Dóminíka”
  • Ido: “Dominika”
  • Igbo: “Dominika”
  • Iloko: “Dominica”
  • Inari Sami: “Dominica”
  • Indonesian: “Dominika”
  • Interlingua: “Dominica”
  • Interlingue: “Dominica”
  • Irish: “Doiminice”
  • Italian: “Commonwealth of Dominica”
  • Italian: “Dominica”
  • Italian: “Dominìca”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Daminiika”
  • Japanese: “ドミニカ国”
  • Javanese: “Dominika”
  • Kabyle: “Dominik”
  • Kabyle: “Duminik”
  • Kalaallisut: “Dominica”
  • Kalmyk: “Доминикин Ниицән”
  • Kannada: “ಡೊಮಿನಿಕ”
  • Kannada: “ಡೊಮಿನಿಕಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Dominika”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Доминика”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Доминиканы Биригиую”
  • Kashmiri: “ڈومِنِکا”
  • Kazakh: “Доминика”
  • Khmer: “ដូមីនីក”
  • Kikuyu: “Dominika”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Dominika”
  • Kirghiz: “Доминика”
  • Korean: “도미니카 연방”
  • Korean: “도미니카”
  • Kurdish: “Domînîk”
  • Kurdish: “Domînîka”
  • Ladin: “Dominica”
  • Ladino: “Dominika”
  • Lao: “ເຄືອລັດໂດມີນິກ”
  • Lao: “ໂດມີນິຄາ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດໂດມີນິກ”
  • Latin: “Dominica”
  • Latvian: “Dominika”
  • Ligurian: “Dominica”
  • Limburgan: “Dominica”
  • Lingala: “Dominica”
  • Lingala: “Domínike”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Dominica”
  • Literary Chinese: “多米尼克”
  • Lithuanian: “Dominika”
  • Livvi: “Dominiku”
  • Lombard: “Dominica”
  • Low German: “Dominica”
  • Low German: “Dominika”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Dominika”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Duminiku”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dominica”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Dominica”
  • Macedonian: “Доминика”
  • Madurese: “Dominika”
  • Malagasy: “Dominika”
  • Malagasy: “Dôminika”
  • Malay: “Dominica”
  • Malay: “Dominika”
  • Malayalam: “കോമൺവെൽത്ത് ഓഫ് ഡൊമനിക്ക”
  • Malayalam: “ഡൊമനിക്ക”
  • Malayalam: “ഡൊമിനിക്ക”
  • Maltese: “Commonwealth ta’ Dominica”
  • Maltese: “Dominica”
  • Maltese: “Dominika”
  • Manipuri: “ꯗꯣꯃꯤꯅꯤꯀꯥ”
  • Manx: “Dominica”
  • Maori: “Tominika”
  • Marathi: “डॉमिनिका”
  • Marathi: “डोमिनिका”
  • Mazanderani: “دومینیکا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dominica”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dominica”
  • Minangkabau: “Dominika”
  • Mingrelian: “დომინიკა”
  • Moksha: “Доминика”
  • Mongolian: “Доминика”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “دومينيكا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ضومينيكا”
  • Nauru: “Dominika”
  • Navajo: “Damóo Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “डोमिनिका”
  • Newari: “डोमिनिका”
  • North Ndebele: “Dominikha”
  • Northern Frisian: “Domiinika”
  • Northern Sami: “Dominica stáhtaidovttastupmi”
  • Northern Sami: “Dominica”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dominica”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Samveldet Dominica”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dominica”
  • Norwegian: “Dominica”
  • Novial: “Dominika”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dominica”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dominica”
  • Oriya: “ଡୋମିନାକା”
  • Oriya: “ଡୋମିନିକା”
  • Ossetian: “Доминикæ”
  • Pali: “डोमोनिका”
  • Pampanga: “Dominica”
  • Panjabi: “ਡੋਮਿਨਿਕਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਡੋਮੀਨਿਕਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Dominica”
  • Persian: “دومینیک”
  • Persian: “دومینیکا”
  • Picard: “Donminique (poéyis)”
  • Picard: “Donminique”
  • Piemontese: “Dominica”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Dominika”
  • Polish: “Dominika”
  • Polish: “Wspólnota Dominiki”
  • Portuguese: “Comunidade da Dominica”
  • Portuguese: “Dominica”
  • Portuguese: “Domínica”
  • Pushto: “دومنيکا”
  • Pushto: “دومینیکا”
  • Quechua: “Dominica”
  • Quechua: “Duminika”
  • Quechua: “Thuminika”
  • Rakhine: “ဒိုမီနီကာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Comunitatea Dominica”
  • Romanian: “Dominica”
  • Romansh: “Dominica”
  • Rundi: “Dominika”
  • Russia Buriat: “Доминика”
  • Russian: “Доминика”
  • Russian: “Остров Доминика”
  • Russian: “Содружество Доминики”
  • Rusyn: “Доминика”
  • Sakizaya: “Dominica”
  • Samoan: “Malo o Dominica”
  • Samogitian: “Duomėnėka”
  • Samogitian: “Duomėnė̅ka”
  • Sango: “Dömïnîka”
  • Sanskrit: “डोमोनिका”
  • Santali: “ᱰᱳᱢᱤᱱᱤᱠᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Dominica”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Dominica”
  • Scots: “Dominica”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Doiminicea”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Doiminicia”
  • Serbian: “Dominika”
  • Serbian: “Доминика”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dominika”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းတူဝ်ႇမီႇၼိၵ”
  • Shona: “Dominica”
  • Sicilian: “Dominica”
  • Silesian: “Důmińika”
  • Sindhi: “ڊومينيڪا”
  • Sinhala: “ඩොමිනිකාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Dominica õutstõs”
  • Skolt Sami: “Dominica”
  • Slovak: “Dominické spoločenstvo”
  • Slovak: “Dominika”
  • Slovenian: “dm”
  • Slovenian: “DM”
  • Slovenian: “DMA”
  • Slovenian: “DOM”
  • Slovenian: “Dominika”
  • Slovenian: “Skupnost Dominika”
  • Somali: “Domeenika”
  • Somali: “Dominika”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دومینیکا”
  • Spanish: “dm”
  • Spanish: “Dominica”
  • Spanish: “Mancomunidad de Dominica”
  • Sundanese: “Dominika”
  • Swahili: “Dominica”
  • Swahili: “Dominika”
  • Swati: “IDomonokha”
  • Swedish: “Dominica”
  • Swiss German: “Dominica”
  • Tachelhit: “Ḍuminika”
  • Tagalog: “Dominica”
  • Tagalog: “Dominika”
  • Tajik: “Доминика”
  • Tamil: “டொமினிகா”
  • Tamil: “டொமினிக்கா”
  • Taroko: “Dominica”
  • Tatar: “Доминика”
  • Telugu: “డొమినికా”
  • Telugu: “డొమీనికా”
  • Tetum: “Domínika”
  • Thai: “เครือรัฐดอมินีกา”
  • Thai: “โดมินิกา”
  • Thai: “ประเทศดอมินีกา”
  • Thai: “ประเทศโดมินิกา”
  • Tibetan: “ཌོ་མི་ནི་ཀ”
  • Tibetan: “ཌོ་མིན་ནི་ཀ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ዶሚኒካ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tominika”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Dominica”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “الدومينيك”
  • Turkish: “Dominik”
  • Turkish: “Dominika”
  • Turkmen: “Dominika”
  • Udmurt: “Доминика”
  • Uighur: “دومىنىكا”
  • Ukrainian: “Домінік”
  • Ukrainian: “Домініка”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Dominika”
  • Urdu: “ڈومنیکا”
  • Urdu: “ڈومینیکا”
  • Uzbek: “Dominika”
  • Venetian: “Domìnega”
  • Venetian: “Dominica”
  • Veps: “Dominik”
  • Veps: “Dominikan Ühtnend”
  • Vietnamese: “Dominica”
  • Vietnamese: “Dominika”
  • Vlax Romani: “Dominica”
  • Volapük: “Dominikeän”
  • Võro: “Dominica”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dominica”
  • Welsh: “Dominica”
  • Western Balochi: “دومینیکا”
  • Western Frisian: “Dominika”
  • Western Mari: “Доминика”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈومینیکا”
  • Wolof: “Dominik”
  • Wolof: “Dominika”
  • Wu Chinese: “多米尼克”
  • Yakut: “Доминика”
  • Yiddish: “דאמיניקא”
  • Yiddish: “דאמיניקע”
  • Yoruba: “Dòmíníkà”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Dòmíníkà”
  • Yue Chinese: “多米尼克”
  • Zeeuws: “Dominica”
  • Zhuang: “Dominica”
  • Zulu: “i-Dominica”
  • “DM”
  • “DMA”
  • “Dominica”
  • “Dominika”
  • “Duomėnėka”
  • “ma Taminika”
  • “डोमिनिका”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Dominica”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.