It's a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti, making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that is shared by twosovereign states. It's the second-largest nation in the Antilles by area (after Cuba), and third-largest by population, with approximately 10.7 million people (2022 est.), 3.3 million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo
Economy: It is an upper-middle income developing country with important sectors including mining, tourism, manufacturing (medical devices, electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals), energy, real estate, infrastructure, telecommunications and agriculture. The Dominican Republic is on track to achieve its goal of becoming a high-income country by 2030, and is expected to grow 79% in this decade. The country is the site of the single largest gold mine in Latin America, the Pueblo Viejo mine
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