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Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo (Spanish pronunciation: [??santo ??o??mi????o] meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzm??n, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. As of 2022, the city and immediate surrounding area (the Distrito Nacional) had a population of 1,029,110 while the total population is 3,798,699 when including Greater Santo Domingo (the "metropolitan area"). The city is coterminous with the boundaries of the Distrito Nacional ("D.N.", "National District"), itself bordered on three sides by Santo Domingo Province. Founded by the Spanish in 1496, on the east bank of the Ozama River and then moved by Nicol??s de Ovando in 1502 to the west bank of the river, the city is the oldest continuously inhabited European...

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