The relative location of the Dominican Republic is Right of Haiti, and left of Puerto Rico.  The absolute location of Dominican Republic is 19 00N, 70 40W.  It is an island in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.  The country is 200 miles long.  The Dominican Republic is in Latin America.  The country capital is Santo Domingo

The Dominican Republic mostly speak Spanish and English.  They speak Spanish because they live in Latin America.  Taino words were adopted from Spanish to describe objects that they didn't know what they were. 

The Dominican Republic has 1 major religion. 95% of Dominicans are Roman Catholic. 16% of Dominicans are white, and 11% black, and 73% are mixed.

Their Government has Representative Democracy. Their Independence day is on February 27^th. Their constitution was put into action on November 28^th 1966. The Dominican Republic has been taken over many times. They have been taken over by Europe, Spain, France, Haiti, and the United States. Christopher Colombus discovered the Dominican Republic.  Columbus discovered the Dominican Republic in 1942.

Dominican republic has many games and sports, just like us. They dance and are known for their music. They play baseball; they mostly only play on Sundays, because they work the other days of the week. They also play volleyball, soccer, basketball, and have a special game called cockfighting. Cockfighting is when you train your chickens to kill\fight other chickens. You place your chicken in an arena, and let them kill each other. It’s like gambling, because you bet money on which chicken will win the fight.  An important holiday in the Dominican Republic is Independence Day,  Christmas and Labor Day.

People in the Dominican Republic eat beans, a lot of rice tubers, plaintains,  pigeon peas, and peas.  Plaintains are like bananas but have a hard shell.  They cook them in boiling water.  They also eat chickens.  They drink coffee three times a day.  They also drink a lot of fresh fruit juice.  They also drink a lot of beer and rum.

In the Dominican Republic wealthy people close like we ware.  Wealthy people also ware a lot of necklaces and bracelets.  But the other people ware rags and don't ware any necklaces and bracelets..  Sometimes for special occasions they ware colorful and bright things.  They also ware a lot of hats to hide them from the sun.  Some schools have fancy uniforms that kids ware.