The Dominican Republic is a
Spanish-speaking representative democracy located on the eastern portion of the Caribbean
? island of
Hispaniola. A legacy of unsettled, mostly non-representative, rule for much of the
20th century was brought to an end in
1996 when free and open elections ushered in a new government.
The capital is [Santo Domingo]?.
From the CIA World Factbook 2000 and the U.S. Department of State website. Not Wikified.
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