List of cities in the Dominican Republic

List of cities in the Dominican Republic

Cities in the Dominican Republic, in accordance with the definition of urban population for purposes of the 2002 census cite web |url=http://one.gob.do/censo/volumen_I_pdf.zip
format = PDF|title=Resultados Definitivos VIII Censo Poplación y Vivienda 2002 Resultados Generales Vol I|author=Oficina Nacional de Estadística|language=Spanish|accessdate=2007-01-24] , are the urban centers and seats ("cabeceras" literally heads) of municipalities ("municipios" singular "municipio"), the second level political and administrative subdivisions of the country, or of municipal districts ("distritos municipal") within them.

anto Domingo

Santo Domingo may refer to Santo Dominigo de Guzmán, the sole municipality of the Distrito Nacional, or the metropolitan area of Santo Doming spread over several municipalities, which as such is not an administrative or political entity. The 2002 census does not give data for metropolitan areas. Sources give different figures for the metropolitan areas population as of 2002 ranging from 1,887,586 [cite web |url=http://www.citypopulation.de/DomRep.html#DOM|title=Dominican Republic - City Population|author=Thomas Brinkhoff - Citypopulation.de|accessdate=2007-03-08] to 2,054,516 [cite web |url=http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&dat=32&srt=npan&col=aohdq&geo=-65|title=Dominican Republic: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population|author=Stefan Helders - World Gazetteer|accessdate=2007-03-08] or 1,840,000 (2000) [cite web |url=http://esa.un.org/unup/p2k0data.asp|title=World Urbanization Prospects - The 2005 Revision Population Database|author=United NationsPopulation Division|accessdate=2007-03-08] . As the law about the creation of the Santo Domingo province, split from the Distrito Nacional in 2001, does refer to the cities of Santo Dominigo de Guzmán, Santo Domingo Este, Santo Domingo Norte and Santo Domingo Oeste as former parts of the city of Santo Domingo for comparison the aggregated population of this cities is given as Santo Domingo (metropolitan) in the following table. [cite web |url=http://www.informejudicial.com/leyes/Division%20Territorial/Ley%20163-01,%20crea%20Provincia%20Santo%20Domingo%20y%20Modifica%20Articulos%201%20y%202%20Ley%205220.htm|title=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.|author=EL CONGRESO NACIONAL|language=Spanish|accessdate=2007-03-08] [cite web |url=http://www.one.gob.do/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=294
format = PDF|title=MAPA POLITICO ADMINISTRATIVO DE LA PROVINCIA SANTO DOMINGO|author=Oficina Nacional de Estadística|language=Spanish|accessdate=2007-03-10]

Cities with population figures

The following is a table of cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants in the Dominican Republic. Population figures are as of the 2002 census. Cities which were at this time the seats of municipal districts and not municipalities are denoted with (D.M.).cite web |url=http://one.gob.do/censo/volumen_I_pdf.zip
format = PDF|title=VIII Censo 2002 Poplación y Vivienda|author=Oficina Nacional de Estadística|language=Spanish|accessdate=2007-01-24] Administrative changes concerning the listed cities up to June 2006 are noted. [cite web |url=http://www.one.gob.do/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=113|title=Listado de Codigos de Provincias, Municipio y Distritos Municipales, Actualizada a Junio 20 del 2006|author=Oficina Nacional de Estadistica, Departamento de Cartografia, Division de Limites y Linderos|language=Spanish|accessdate=2007-01-24]

Map

ee also

*Municipalities of the Dominican Republic

References

External links

* [http://www.one.gob.do/ Oficina Nacional de Estadística, Statistics Portal of the Dominican Republic]
* [http://www.one.gob.do/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=114 Oficina Nacional de Estadística, Maps about the administrative division of the Dominican Republic] , downloadable in PDF format
* [http://www.fedomu.org.do/index.html Federación Dominicana de Municipios - FEDOMU, Dominican federation of municipalities]
* [http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-65&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=x World Gazetteer - Cities in the Dominican Republic]
* [http://www.citypopulation.de/DomRep.html#DOM City Population - Dominican Republic]


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