List of cities in the Dominican Republic


Cities in the Dominican Republic, in accordance with the definition of urban population for purposes of the 2002 census, are the urban centers and seats of municipalities, the second level political and administrative subdivisions of the country, or of municipal districts within them.

Santo Domingo

may refer to Santo Domingo de Guzmán, the sole municipality of the Distrito Nacional, or the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo spread over several municipalities, which as such is not an administrative or political entity. The 2002 census does not give data for metropolitan areas. Sources give different figures for the metropolitan areas population as of 2002 ranging from 1,887,586 to 2,054,516 or 1,840,000. As the law about the creation of the Santo Domingo province, split from the Distrito Nacional in 2001, does refer to the cities of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, Santo Domingo Este, Santo Domingo Norte and Santo Domingo Oeste as former parts of the city of Santo Domingo for comparison the aggregated population of this cities is given as Santo Domingo in the following table.

Cities with population figures

The following is a table of cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants in the Dominican Republic. Population figures are as of the 2010 census.
CityProvincePopulationNotes June 2006
Greater Santo DomingoDistrito Nacional, Santo DomingoFor comparison only
Santo Domingo de GuzmánDistrito Nacional
Santiago de los CaballerosSantiagothree additional municipal districts
Santo Domingo EsteSanto DomingoOne additional municipal district
Santo Domingo NorteSanto Domingo
Santo Domingo OesteSanto Domingo
San Felipe de Puerto PlataPuerto Plata277981One additional municipal district
Concepción de la VegaLa Vega220279One additional municipal district
San Pedro de MacorísSan Pedro de Macorís193713One new municipality created
La RomanaLa Romana191303One additional municipal district, also one new municipality created
Los Alcarrizos Santo Domingo166930Municipality with two municipal districts
San Francisco de MacorisDuarte163980
San CristóbalSan Cristóbal137422One additional municipal district
Salvaleón de HigüeyLa Altagracia103502
Santa Cruz de BarahonaBarahona74958One additional municipal district
BonaoMonseñor Nouel72821Three additional municipal districts
San Juan de la MaguanaSan Juan70969Eight additional municipal districts
BaníPeravia61864Four additional municipal districts
Bajos de HainaSan Cristóbal61400
MocaEspaillat59174Five additional municipal districts
Azua de CompostelaAzua56453Eight additional municipal districts
MaoValverde47828
Boca ChicaSanto Domingo46385One additional municipal district
CotuíSánchez Ramírez42115One additional municipal district
EsperanzaValverde41189One additional municipal district
Villa AltagraciaSan Cristóbal36791Three additional municipal districts
Hato Mayor del ReyHato Mayor34006
NaguaMaría Trinidad Sánchez32035Two additional municipal districts
Villa BisonóSantiago29723
JarabacoaLa Vega27370One additional municipal district
ConstanzaLa Vega27090One additional municipal district
ConsueloSan Pedro de Macorís25034
Pedro Brand Santo Domingo22695Municipality with two municipal districts
Santa Cruz del SeiboEl Seibo22489One additional municipal district
TamborilSantiago21939
Las Matas de FarfánSan Juan21271One additional municipal district
San José de OcoaSan José de Ocoa21226Two additional municipal districts

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