1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Dominican Republic
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Santo Domingo—2,201,941, America/Santo_Domingo, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of the Dominican Republic.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Santo Domingo is GeoNames ID 3492908. Its recorded administrative path is Santo Domingo De Guzman → Nacional → Dominican Republic, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Santo Domingo occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-03-09; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Santo Domingo ranks 182 by recorded population. Inside the 4 selected Dominican Republic entries it ranks 1; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 24. Its 2,201,941 population value is 2.32 times the 950,635 median for the country cohort and 2.70 times the 816,326 regional median. Santo Domingo is rank 1 among the 4 selected Dominican Republic entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Santo Domingo's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Santo Domingo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Santo Domingo Este at 4.944 km with 700,000 recorded people; Santo Domingo Oeste at 11.779 km with 701,269 recorded people; Santiago de los Caballeros at 137.44 km with 1,200,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 132.496 km. Compared with Santo Domingo Este, Santo Domingo's recorded population is 3.15 times as large. Against Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo Este follows Santo Domingo Este → Santo Domingo Province → Dominican Republic in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Dominican Republic cohort, uses the shared America/Santo_Domingo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Santo Domingo's. Against Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo Oeste follows Santo Domingo Oeste → Santo Domingo Province → Dominican Republic in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Dominican Republic cohort, uses the shared America/Santo_Domingo identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Santo Domingo's. Against Santo Domingo, Santiago de los Caballeros follows Santiago de los Caballeros → Santiago Province → Dominican Republic in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Dominican Republic cohort, uses the shared America/Santo_Domingo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Santo Domingo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 45 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Santo Domingo's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3492908, the coordinate pair 18.4719 / 69.8923, country rank 1 of 4, and neighbor GeoNames 8601412 at 4.944 km bind Santo Domingo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Santo Domingo's reference point is 18.4719° north and 69.8923° west. The IANA identifier America/Santo_Domingo is shared by 4 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Santo Domingo's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Santo Domingo's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Santo Domingo's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Santo Domingo, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Santo Domingo's closest other entries in this atlas are Santo Domingo Este (4.944 km), Santo Domingo Oeste (11.779 km), Santiago de los Caballeros (137.44 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-03-09; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.