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The Dominican Republic is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north. 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 two sovereign states. It is the second-largest nation in the Antilles by area at 48,671 square kilometers (18,792 sq mi), and second-largest by population, with approximately 11.4 million people in 2024, of whom approximately 3.6 million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city.
Dominicans are an ethno-national people, a people of shared ancestry and culture, who have ancestral roots in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican ethnic group was born out of a fusion of European, native Taino, and African elements, which is an ethnic fusion that goes back to the 16th century. Due to this fusion, the majority of Dominicans are of mixed-race heritage, tracing roots mainly to these three sources with the vast majority being of predominant European ancestry. The demonym Dominican can be traced as far back as the 1621. The name came from Santo Domingo, which was not only the name of the capital city but also of the entire island at the time, Spain used this term to refer to the inhabitants of Spanish province of Santo Domingo. Recent immigrants and their children, who are legal citizens of the Dominican Republic, can be considered "Dominican" by nationality but not ethnicity due to not having ancestral roots in the country.
The Dominican Republic national football team represents the Dominican Republic in men's international football, and is governed by the Dominican Football Federation. The team is a member of the Caribbean Football Union of CONCACAF, the governing body of football in North and Central America and the Caribbean.
General José Antonio Salcedo y Ramírez, known as "Pepillo" (1816–1864) was a 19th-century President of the Dominican Republic.
Prisilla Altagracia Rivera Brens is a volleyball player from the Dominican Republic.
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Cayetano Bartolomé "Tano" Bonnín Vásquez is a professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Italian Serie C Group C club Brindisi. Born in Spain, he represents the Dominican Republic national team.
White Dominicans are Dominican people of predominant or full European descent. They are 17.8% of the Dominican Republic's population, according to a 2021 survey by the United Nations Population Fund. The majority of white Dominicans have ancestry from the first European settlers to arrive in Hispaniola in 1492 and are descendants of the Spanish and Portuguese who settled in the island during colonial times, as well as the French who settled in the 17th and 18th centuries. Many whites in the Dominican Republic also descend from Italians, Dutchmen, Germans, Hungarians, Scandinavians, Americans and other nationalities who have migrated between the 19th and 20th centuries. About 9.2% of the Dominican population claims a European immigrant background, according to the 2021 Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas survey.
Brayelin Elizabeth Martínez is a Dominican volleyball player who won the bronze medal in the 2015 Pan American Games as a member of the Dominican Republic national team. She played in the 2014 Senior World Championship and the 2011 and 2015 FIVB World Cup.
Jineiry Martínez is a Dominican volleyball player who played the 2015 FIVB World Cup with the Dominican Republic national team. She won the bronze medal in the 2015 Pan American Games. With her under ages national teams, she won the gold medal in the 2015 FIVB U20 World Championship, silver in the 2013 FIVB U23 World Championship and bronze in the 2015 FIVB U23 World Championship.
Winifer María Fernández Pérez is a Dominican female volleyball player. With her club Mirador she competed at the 2015 FIVB Club World Championship. She became well known after a video and later some photos of her playing and training, and personal photos of her--some of them fake--went viral in July 2016.
Elnis Palomino Castillo is a Dominican Republic male volleyball player who competed with the Dominican club La Romana in the 2013 FIVB Club World Championship.
Enmy Manuel Peña Beltré is a Dominican professional footballer who plays for Maltese club Birkirkara and the Dominican Republic national team as a midfielder or right back. He also holds Spanish citizenship.
José Arturo Sánchez Méndez is a Dominican footballer who plays as a forward for Atlántico FC and the Dominican Republic national team.
Gerard Paul Lavergne Matos is a Dominican professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga Dominicana club Atlético Pantoja and the Dominican Republic national team.
Isaac Emmanuel Angking is a Puerto Rican professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder.
Edison Alexander Azcona Vélez is a Dominican professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Las Vegas Lights on loan from Major League Soccer club Inter Miami, and the Dominican Republic national team.
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- 1 2 3 "Nowend Lorenzo debutó con la selección absoluta de la República Dominicana" [Nowend Lorenzo debuted with the full side of the Dominican Republic national team] (in Spanish). CA Osasuna. 20 January 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
- ↑ "Domingo Peralta, Pinta y Lavergne en la convocatoria para enfrentar a Puerto Rico" [Domingo Peralta, Pinta and Lavergne in the call-up to face Puerto Rico] (in Spanish). ESPN. 7 January 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
- ↑ "Dominicana cayó 0–1 ante Puerto Rico en amistoso" [Dominican Republic fall by 0–1 against Puerto Rico in a friendly] (in Spanish). Diario Libre. 19 January 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
