Dominican Republic

The country calling code for Dominican Republic is +1. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Dominican Republic number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Dominican Republic is assigned DO as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and DOM as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Dominican Republic is .do. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Dominican Republic is the Dominican peso, with the ISO 4217 code DOP and the symbol $. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Dominican Republic are quoted in DOP. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Dominican Republic is -04:00, currently UTC-04:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Dominican Republic is Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic sits in Americas, specifically the Caribbean subregion. Its approximate centre point is 19.00000000, -70.66666666. Traffic in Dominican Republic drives on the right. Languages recorded for Dominican Republic: Spanish.

Dominican Republic shares a land border with 1 country: Haiti. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.