Dominican Republic
Greater Santo Domingo
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Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo is the capital of the , the oldest European city in the Americas, and the most developed city on the island of Hispaniola.
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  • Type: City with 965,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the Dominican Republic
  • Also known as: “San Domingo”, “Santo Domingo City”, “Santo Domingo de Guzman”, “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”, and “Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic”
  • Historically known as: “Ciudad Trujillo”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Fortaleza Ozama and Alcázar de Colón.

Photo: Mariordo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Ozama Fortress, also formerly known as the city wall's Homage tower, is one of the surviving sections of the Walls of Santo Domingo, which is recognized by UNESCO as being the oldest military construction of European origin in the Americas.

Museum
Photo: Martin Falbisoner, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is the first fortified palace built in the Americas. Located in the colonial area of Santo Domingo, , it forms part of the , a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Church
Photo: Georg Karl Ell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in the of Santo Domingo is dedicated to St. Mary of the Incarnation. It is the oldest existing cathedral in the Americas, begun in 1504 and was completed in 1550, and the second constructed after the in Greenland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ciudad Colonial and Los Mameyes.

Village
Photo: Mariordo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the historic central neighborhood of the 's capital Santo Domingo. It is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the Americas.

Neighborhood
is a neighbourhood in the city of in the of the . This neighbourhood is populated in particular by individuals from the middle classes.

Santo Domingo

Latitude
18.4714° or 18° 28′ 17″ north
Longitude
-69.8918° or 69° 53′ 31″ west
Population
965,000
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
IATA airport code
SDQ
United Nations Location Code
DO SDQ
Open location code
77CGF4C5+H7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 315342451
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3492908
Wiki­data ID
Q34820
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Santo Domingo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Santo Domingo”
  • Albanian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Amharic: “ሳንቶ ዶሚንጎ”
  • Arabic: “سان دمنجو”
  • Arabic: “سانت دومينغو”
  • Arabic: “سانتو دومنجو”
  • Arabic: “سانتو دومينجو”
  • Arabic: “سانتو دومينغو”
  • Aragonese: “Santo Domingo”
  • Armenian: “Սանտո Դոմինգո”
  • Asturian: “Ciudá Trujillo”
  • Asturian: “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”
  • Asturian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Asturian: “Santu Domingu”
  • Aymara: “Santo Domingo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Santo Dominqo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Santo-Dominqo”
  • Balinese: “Santo Domingo”
  • Bashkir: “Санто-Доминго (Доминика Республикаһы)”
  • Bashkir: “Санто-Доминго”
  • Basque: “Santo Domingo de Guzman”
  • Basque: “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”
  • Basque: “Santo Domingo”
  • Belarusian: “Санта-Дамінга”
  • Bengali: “সান্তো দোমিঙ্গো দে গুসমান”
  • Bengali: “সান্তো দোমিঙ্গো”
  • Bosnian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Breton: “Santo Domingo”
  • Bulgarian: “Санто Доминго”
  • Catalan: “Ciudad Trujillo”
  • Catalan: “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”
  • Catalan: “Santo Domingo”
  • Cebuano: “Santo Domingo”
  • Central Bikol: “Santo Domingo”
  • Chavacano: “Santo Domingo”
  • Chechen: “Санто-Доминго”
  • Chinese: “Santo Domingo”
  • Chinese: “圣多明各”
  • Chinese: “圣多明哥”
  • Chinese: “聖多明各”
  • Chinese: “聖多明哥”
  • Cornish: “Santo Domingo”
  • Corsican: “Santu Dumènicu”
  • Croatian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Czech: “Santo Domingo”
  • Danish: “Santo Domingo”
  • Dutch: “Ciudad Trujillo” (historical)
  • Dutch: “Santo Domingo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانتو دومينجو”
  • Esperanto: “Sandomingo”
  • Esperanto: “Sankta Domingo”
  • Esperanto: “Santo Domingo”
  • Estonian: “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”
  • Estonian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Faroese: “Santo Domingo”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Santo Domingo”
  • Finnish: “Ciudad Trujillo”
  • Finnish: “Santo Domingo”
  • French: “Ciudad Trujillo”
  • French: “Dominicaine”
  • French: “Saint Domingue”
  • French: “Saint-domingue”
  • French: “Saint-Domingue”
  • French: “San Domingo”
  • French: “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”
  • French: “Santo Dominguo”
  • French: “Santo-Domingo”
  • French: “Ville de Saint-Domingue”
  • Galician: “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”
  • Galician: “Santo Domingo”
  • Georgian: “სანტო-დომინგო”
  • German: “Ciudad Trujillo”
  • German: “Santo Domingo”
  • Greek: “Άγιος Δομίνικος”
  • Greek: “Σάντο Ντομίγκο”
  • Greek: “Σάντο Ντομίνγκο”
  • Guarani: “Santo Domingo”
  • Gujarati: “સેન્ટો ડોમિન્ગો”
  • Haitian: “Sen Domeng”
  • Haitian: “Sendomeng”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Santo Domingo”
  • Hausa: “Santo Domingo”
  • Hebrew: “סאנטו דומינגו”
  • Hebrew: “סנטו דומינגו”
  • Hindi: “सेंटो डोमिंगो”
  • Hindi: “सैंटो डोमिंगो”
  • Hungarian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Icelandic: “Santo Domingo”
  • Icelandic: “Santó Dómingó”
  • Ido: “Santo Domingo”
  • Iloko: “Santo Domingo”
  • Inari Sami: “Santo Domingo”
  • Indonesian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Interlingua: “Santo Domingo”
  • Interlingue: “Santo Domingo”
  • Irish: “Santo Domingo”
  • Italian: “Distrito Nacional”
  • Italian: “Santo Domingo de Guzman”
  • Italian: “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”
  • Italian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Japanese: “サント・ドミンゴ・デ・グスマン”
  • Japanese: “サント・ドミンゴ”
  • Japanese: “サントドミンゴ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾಂಟೋ ಡೊಮಿಂಗೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Санто-Доминго қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Санто-Доминго”
  • Kikuyu: “Santo Domingo”
  • Korean: “산토 도밍고”
  • Korean: “산토도밍고”
  • Korean: “시우다드 트루히요”
  • Korean: “시우다드트루히요”
  • Korean: “싼또도밍고”
  • Kotava: “Santo Domingo (Dominikana)”
  • Kotava: “Santo Domingo”
  • Ladino: “Santo Domingo”
  • Latin: “Dominicopolis”
  • Latin: “Santo Domingo de Guzman”
  • Latin: “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”
  • Latvian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Latvian: “Santodomingo”
  • Ligurian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Lithuanian: “Santo Domingas”
  • Lithuanian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Livvi: “Santo-Domingo”
  • Lombard: “Santo Domingo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”
  • Luxembourgish: “Santo Domingo”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Macedonian: “Санто Доминго”
  • Malay: “Santo Domingo”
  • Malayalam: “സാന്റോ ഡൊമനിഗോ”
  • Maltese: “Santo Domingo”
  • Marathi: “सँटो डोमिंगो”
  • Marathi: “सांतो दॉमिंगो”
  • Marathi: “सान्तो दॉमिंगो”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Santo Domingo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Santo Domingo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sèng Domingo-chhī”
  • Minangkabau: “Santo Domingo”
  • Mingrelian: “სანტო-დომინგო”
  • Moksha: “Санто Доминга”
  • Moksha: “Санто Доминго”
  • Mongolian: “Санто Доминго”
  • Mongolian: “Санто-Доминго”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سانطو دومينڭو”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سانطو دومينݣو”
  • Northern Frisian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Northern Luri: “سانتودومنیکو”
  • Northern Sami: “Santo Domingo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ciudad Trujillo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Santo Domingo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Santo Domingo”
  • Norwegian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Novial: “Santo Domingo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sant Domingo”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sanct Dominicesburg”
  • Ossetian: “Санто-Доминго”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਂਤੋ ਦੋਮਿੰਗੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Republika Dominikana”
  • Papiamento: “Santo Domingo”
  • Papiamento: “Santo Domingu”
  • Persian: “سانتو دومینگو”
  • Piemontese: “Santo Domingo”
  • Polish: “Santo Domingo”
  • Portuguese: “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”
  • Portuguese: “Santo Domingo”
  • Portuguese: “São Domingos”
  • Pushto: “سانتو دومینګو”
  • Quechua: “Santo Domingo llaqta”
  • Romanian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Russian: “Новая Изабелла”
  • Russian: “Санто Доминго”
  • Russian: “Санто-Доминго”
  • Russian: “Сьюдад-Трухильо”
  • Sakizaya: “sentuminke”
  • Sardinian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Scots: “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”
  • Scots: “Santo Domingo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Santo Domingo”
  • Serbian: “Санто Доминго”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Shona: “Santo Domingo”
  • Silesian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Sindhi: “سانتو ڊومنگو”
  • Sinhala: “සැන්ටෝ ඩොමින්ගෝ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Santo Domingo”
  • Slovak: “Santo Domingo”
  • Slovenian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Santo Domingo”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad primada de America”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad primada de América”
  • Spanish: “Gran Santo Domingo”
  • Spanish: “Santo Domingo de Guzman”
  • Spanish: “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”
  • Spanish: “Santo Domingo”
  • Swahili: “Santo Domingo”
  • Swedish: “Ciudad Trujillo”
  • Swedish: “Santo Domingo”
  • Tagalog: “Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic”
  • Tagalog: “Santo Domingo, Republikang Dominikano”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Санто Доминго”
  • Tajik: “Санто Доминго”
  • Talysh: “Santo Domingo”
  • Talysh: “Santo Dominqo”
  • Tamil: “சாந்தோ தொமிங்கோ”
  • Tamil: “சான்டோ டொமிங்கோ”
  • Tamil: “ஸன்டோ டமிங்கோ”
  • Telugu: “సాంటో డామింగో”
  • Thai: “Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic”
  • Thai: “Santo Domingo”
  • Thai: “ซันโตโดมิงโก”
  • Thai: “ซานโตโดมิงโก”
  • Tibetan: “སཱན་ཏོ་ཌོ་མིང་གོ་”
  • Tibetan: “སཱན་ཏོ་ཌོ་མིང་གོ”
  • Turkish: “Santo Domingo”
  • Turkmen: “Santo–Domingo”
  • Udmurt: “Санто-Доминго”
  • Ukrainian: “Санто-Домінго”
  • Ukrainian: “Санто-Домінґо”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ciudad Trujillo”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Urdu: “سانتو دومنگو”
  • Uzbek: “Santa Domingo”
  • Uzbek: “Santo-domingo”
  • Venetian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Veps: “Santo Domingo”
  • Vietnamese: “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”
  • Vietnamese: “Santo Domingo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Santo Domingo de Guzmán”
  • Welsh: “Santo Domingo”
  • Western Frisian: “Santo Domingo”
  • Western Panjabi: “سانٹا ڈومنگو”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣多明各（多米尼加）”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣多明各”
  • Yakut: “Санто Доминго”
  • Yoruba: “Santo Domingo”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖多明各”
  • Zeeuws: “Santo Domingo”
  • Zulu: “i-Santo Domingo”
  • “Santo Domingo”

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