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Section sizes

Section size for Dominican Republic (54 sections)
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History	56	52,311
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European colonization	5,527	5,527
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Restoration republic	9,935	9,935
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1996–present	4,402	4,402
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Climate	3,321	3,321
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Government and politics	4,033	17,264
Administrative divisions	8,135	8,135
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Military	2,399	2,399
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Tourism	2,066	2,066
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Bus services	667	667
Santo Domingo Metro	1,752	1,752
Communications	2,372	2,372
Electricity	2,402	2,402
Demographics	2,981	75,727
Population centres	3,044	3,084
Notes	40	40
Ethnic groups	16,302	16,302
Languages	6,919	6,919
Religion	7,261	7,261
Immigration in the 20th and 21st centuries	15,014	29,529
Haitian immigration	14,515	14,515
Emigration	3,645	3,645
Education	2,855	2,855
Health	726	726
Crime	2,425	2,425
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Architecture	2,575	2,575
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Literature	10,006	10,006
Music and dance	3,422	3,422
Fashion	1,554	1,554
Cuisine	3,206	3,206
National symbols	3,638	3,638
Sports	4,508	4,508
See also	183	183
Notes	24	24
References	5,136	6,111
Bibliography	975	975
Further reading	726	726
External links	2,865	2,865
Total	246,602	246,602

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by Epicgenius (talk) 12:47, 28 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Not eligible for DYK at this time.

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... that Dominican Republic recently got area and managed to annex dominica?
- Reviewed: Dominica

Created by SpyridisioAnnis (talk). Self-nominated at 10:34, 28 August 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Not only is Dominican Republic ineligible for DYK (not a 5x expansion, was not brought to GA within the last seven days), but the proposed hook is patently false. The Dominican Republic has not annexed Dominica: the two countries aren't even close to each other, so such an annexation is unlikely. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:37, 28 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnic Racial Composition innacurracy

There seems to be an attemped to make the Dominican Republic more European than it actually is. Everytime someone post a reliable source and more accurate sources that have more realistic estimates from the dominican population, they attempt to reverse the white population and black population. In reality the Dominican population has more black dominicans than white dominicans, with mixed race being the majority. At no point in history was the population of whites higher than the blacks, even when it was just one big island (hispaniola) at the time when it was not divided. Only in the beginning was it different (1490s-1500s). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C56:60F0:B9F0:91F5:10EF:57EA:30EC (talk) 17:44, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 17 January 2025

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at the bottom of "the Trujillo era" it says, "The assassination of Trujillo the day before finally eliminated the threat," and it sounds very confusing and doesn't look correct, also you should add "they" between "finally eliminated" The real PikaGamer (talk) 19:27, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit: put "they" before "finally eliminated" The real PikaGamer (talk) 19:29, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: The assassination eliminated the threat, there should be no "they" in this sentence as "they" did not eliminate the threat, the assassination did. Jiltedsquirrel (talk) 02:13, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]