<Li> A covenant was signed between two commissions from both countries on July 26, 1867, but it did not enter into force because it was not approved by the Senate of Haiti . </Li> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Sources for area, capital, coat of arms, coordinates, flag, language, motto and names: For an alternate area figure of 48,730 km, calling code 809 and Internet TLD: </Td> </Tr> <P> The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana (reˈpuβlika ðominiˈkana)) is a country located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region . It occupies the eastern five - eighths of the island, which it shares with the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that are shared by two countries . The Dominican Republic is the second - largest Caribbean nation by area (after Cuba) at 48,445 square kilometers (18,705 sq mi), and third by population with approximately 10 million people, of which approximately three million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city . </P> <P> Christopher Columbus landed on the Western part of Hispaniola, in what is now Haiti, on December 6, 1492 . The island became the first seat of Spanish colonial rule in the New World . The Dominican people declared independence in November 1821 but were forcefully annexed by their more powerful neighbor Haiti in February 1822 . After the 1844 victory in the Dominican War of Independence against Haitian rule the country fell again under Spanish colonial rule until the Dominican War of Restoration of 1865 . </P>

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