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Santo Domingo de Guzmán, population 2,061,200 (Metro) (2003), estimated 2,253,437
(Metro) in 2006, is the capital and the largest city of the Dominican Republic.
The city is
located at 18°29′N 69°55′W, on the Caribbean Sea. at the mouth of the
Ozama River. It is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the
Americas and was the first seat of Spanish colonial rule in the New World. It is
also considered the second most populated city in the Caribbean Region (after Havana
in Cuba).
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