Geography of the Dominican Republic
This article details the geography of the Dominican Republic.
; Location:
- Caribbean, it occupies two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Haiti
- 19 00 N, 70 40 W
- Central America and the Caribbean
- Total: 48,730 km²
- Land: 48,380 km²
- Water: 350 km²
- Slightly more than twice the size of New Hampshire
- Total: 275 km
- Border countries: Haiti 275 km
- 1,288 km
- Contiguous zone: 24 nm
- Continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
- Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
- Territorial sea: 6 nm
- Tropical maritime; little seasonal temperature variation; seasonal variation in rainfall
- Significant rivers include the Jimani River, Río Yaque del Norte, Río Jamao del Norte, Río Isabela and the Ozamas River
- Rugged highlands and mountains with fertile valleys interspersed
- Lowest point: Lago Enriquillo -46 m
- Highest point: Pico Duarte 3,175 m
- Arable land: 21%
- Permanent crops: 9%
- Permanent pastures: 43%
- Forests and woodland: 12%
- Other: 15% (1993 est.)
- 2,300 km² (1993 est.)
- Lies in the middle of the hurricane belt and subject to severe storms from June to October; occasional flooding; periodic droughts
- Water shortages; soil eroding into the sea damages coral reefs; deforestation; Hurricane Georges damage
- Signed, but not ratified: Law of the Sea
- Shares island of Hispaniola with Haiti (eastern two-thirds is the Dominican Republic, western one-third is Haiti)