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The Dominican Republic Flag has a white cross whose edges touch the boundary of the flag in four direction and divides the flag in four equal rectangles. These rectangles are of same color in the opposite and in the hoisting side there are Blue over red and in the flying side there is red over blue color. In the middle of the white cross there is a shield on which is an open Bible and a cross over it. Above the shield the blue ribbon reads God, Fatherland, Republic and at the bottom the red ribbon reads Republica Domionicana .

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The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana, IPA [re’puβlika domini’kana]) is a Latin American country located in the Greater Antilles archipelago on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. It shares a border with the Republic of Haiti, making it one of two Caribbean islands that are split by two countries; the other is Saint-Martin/Sint Maarten. Hispaniola is the second-largest of the Greater Antilles islands, and lies west of Puerto Rico and east of Cuba and Jamaica.

More than 500 years of mixed lapses of prosperity and turmoil give this island-nation the longest historical record of any of the other country in the Western hemisphere: The Dominican Republic is the site of the first permanent European settlement in the Americas, and became the first point of colonization in the Western Hemisphere by explorers from Europe. The Dominican Republic has the first cathedral and university, as well as the first European-built road and fortress, in the Americas. Santo Domingo (originally New Isabela) was also the first colonial capital in the Americas.

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