North America · Caribbean

Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic covers about 48,400 km² (18,700 mi²), the 132nd largest of the 246 places listed here. That is close to Slovakia, at about 48,500 km².

48,400km²Area, main territory
10.8 millionPopulation
1.58In Belgiums

100 km

Dominican Republic

Facts

Area, main territory	48,400 km²18,700 mi²
Official area	48,700 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
In Belgiums	1.58
Capital	Santo Domingo
Population	10.8 millionWikidata, 2022
Density	222 people per km²
Latitude range	18°N to 20°N
In other languages	República Dominicana Español · Dominikanische Republik Deutsch · République dominicaine Français · República Dominicana Português · ドミニカ共和国日本語 · 多米尼加共和国中文 · 도미니카 공화국 한국어
Continent	North America#11 of 27 countries by area

What the numbers say about Dominican Republic

Russia, the largest place listed, is 351× the size of Dominican Republic.
Dominican Republic ranks 86th of 237 by population but only 131st of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
At 222 people per km², Dominican Republic is the 33rd most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
Dominican Republic lies at 19°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
Laid out flat, Dominican Republic's main territory stretches about 266 km north to south and 388 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 48,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 48,400 km², to within 2%.

How Dominican Republic measures up

Dominican Republic holds 0.2% of the land area and 1.8% of the people of the 27 countries listed for North America. In Caribbean it is the 2nd largest of 16.

Where it ranks	Figure	Position
Area	48,400 km²	131st of 239
Population	10.8 million	86th of 237
Density	222 per km²	33rd of 185
Farthest north	18.9°N	104th of 212

Compared with	Its area	Dominican Republic is
Belgium	30,700 km²	1.58× its size
United Kingdom	244,000 km²	0.20× its size
Germany	358,000 km²	0.14× its size
Japan	374,000 km²	0.13× its size
France	548,000 km²	0.09× its size
India	3,151,000 km²	0.02× its size
Brazil	8,473,000 km²	0.01× its size
United States	9,447,000 km²	0.01× its size
Russia	16,980,000 km²	1 in 351 its size

Where Dominican Republic sits

Dominican Republic's centre lies at 18.9°N, 70.5°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 2,100 km from the equator.
Its main territory spans 18°N to 20°N, about 270 km from its southern edge to its northern.

Closest neighbours, by distance between centres

On the same latitude, elsewhere in the world

If Dominican Republic had other densities

At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Dominican Republic would have 60.7 million people. It has 10.8 million.
At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Dominican Republic would have 180,000 people. It has 10.8 million.
At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 3.5 million.

About the same size as

Largest in North America

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Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded
Official figures: Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11
Population: Wikidata, 2022; covers the whole country, overseas territory included
Data built: 2026-11-11

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