Historically speaking, Santo Domingo was the name of the capital ever since Bartolome Colón founded it way back in 1498, to honor the founder of the Dominican religious order. In the 1930s, 40s, and ...

There are 31 provinces in the Dominican Republic, and some of them have names that are easy to understand, such as Duarte, for one of the Founding Fathers, Juan Pablo Duarte, or Valverde, or Espaillat ...