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Provinces

The population of the provinces of the Dominican Republic according to census results.

Name	Abbr.	Capital	Area A (km²)	Population Census (C) 1981-12-12	Population Census (C) 1993-09-24	Population Census (Cf) 2002-10-18	Population Census (Cf) 2010-12-01	Population Census (Cf) 2022-11-10
Azua	AZU	Azua	2,670	140,914	199,684	208,857	214,311	240,209	267000	→
Baoruco	BAO	Neiba	1,314	78,042	105,206	91,480	97,313	108,717	131400	→
Barahona	BAR	Barahona	1,774	141,313	164,835	179,239	187,105	200,884	177400	→
Dajabón	DAJ	Dajabón	1,017	54,675	68,606	62,046	63,955	74,810	101700	→
Distrito Nacional [incl. Santo Domingo Province]	DN	Santo Domingo	1,394	1,540,786	2,193,046	2,731,294	3,339,410	3,798,698	139400	→
Duarte	DUA	San Francisco de Macorís	1,651	227,798	281,879	283,805	289,574	308,353	165100	→
Elías Piña	EPI	Comendador	1,395	61,895	64,641	63,879	63,029	64,614	139500	→
El Seibo	ESE	El Seibo	1,788	83,230	96,770	89,261	87,680	99,169	178800	→
Espaillat	ESP	Moca	860	163,860	202,376	225,091	231,938	241,058	86000	→
Hato Mayor	HMA	Hato Mayor del Rey	1,277	68,397	80,074	87,631	85,017	100,133	127700	→
Hermanas Mirabal (Salcedo)	HMI	Salcedo	428	94,173	101,810	96,356	92,193	96,441	42800	→
Independencia	IND	Jimaní	1,948	35,908	39,541	50,833	52,589	60,689	194800	→
La Altagracia	LAL	Higüey	2,997	96,009	115,685	182,020	273,210	446,060	299700	→
La Romana	LRO	La Romana	652	107,021	166,550	219,812	245,433	287,914	65200	→
La Vega	LVE	La Vega	2,294	277,018	344,721	385,101	394,205	442,719	229400	→
María Trinidad Sánchez	MTS	Nagua	1,206	99,731	124,957	135,727	140,925	156,633	120600	→
Monseñor Nouel	MSN	Bonao	1,003	112,932	149,318	167,618	165,224	195,547	100300	→
Monte Cristi	MCR	Monte Cristi	1,875	83,124	95,705	111,014	109,607	123,519	187500	→
Monte Plata	MPL	Monte Plata	2,619	155,608	167,148	180,376	185,956	205,498	261900	→
Pedernales	PED	Pedernales	1,919	15,493	18,054	21,207	31,587	34,375	191900	→
Peravia	PER	Baní	783	169,067	201,851	169,865	184,344	209,372	78300	→
Puerto Plata	PPL	Puerto Plata	1,790	201,893	261,485	312,706	321,597	338,355	179000	→
Samaná	SAM	Samaná	893	64,537	75,253	91,875	101,494	114,468	89300	→
Sánchez Ramírez	SRA	Cotuí	1,178	119,866	163,166	151,179	151,392	162,642	117800	→
San Cristóbal	SCR	San Cristóbal	1,242	289,340	420,820	532,880	569,930	688,828	124200	→
San José de Ocoa	SJO	San José de Ocoa	843	Peravia	Peravia	62,368	59,544	69,082	84300	→
San Juan	SJU	San Juan de la Maguana	3,359	231,509	252,637	241,105	232,333	244,667	335900	→
San Pedro de Macorís	SPM	San Pedro de Macorís	1,253	147,777	212,368	301,744	290,458	337,146	125300	→
Santiago	SAN	Santiago de los Caballeros	2,805	533,102	710,803	908,250	963,422	1,074,679	280500	→
Santiago Rodríguez	SRO	Sabaneta	1,150	56,144	62,144	59,629	57,476	64,635	115000	→
Valverde	VAL	Mao	818	94,579	152,257	158,293	163,030	184,069	81800	→
Dominican Republic	DOM	Santo Domingo	48,196	5,545,741	7,293,390	8,562,541	9,445,281	10,773,983		→

The Province of Santo Domingo was split from the Distrito Nacional in 2001; the remaining Distrito Nacional covers only the Municipality of Santo Domingo de Guzmán with a population of 913,540 in 2002, 965,040 in 2010 and 1,029,110 in 2022.
La Oficina Nacional de Estadística.

Major Cities

	Name	Adm.	Population Census (Cf) 2022-11-10
1	Santo Domingo	DN	2,752,784
2	Santiago de los Caballeros	SAN	612,595
3	Los Alcarrizos	DN	282,799
4	La Romana	LRO	265,313
5	Higüey	LAL	210,278
6	San Pedro de Macorís	SPM	207,378
7	San Cristóbal	SCR	167,466
8	San Francisco de Macorís	DUA	143,726
9	Puerto Plata	PPL	132,878
10	La Vega	LVE	123,677

Contents: Cities & Towns

The population of all Dominican cities and towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants by census years.

The urban population of municipalities (municipios) or of municipal districts (distritos municipales) is tabulated.

Name	Adm.	Population Census (C) 1981-12-12	Population Census (C) 1993-09-24	Population Census (Cf) 2002-10-18	Population Census (Cf) 2010-12-01	Population Census (Cf) 2022-11-10
Azua de Compostela (incl. Clavellina, Doña Emma Balaguer)	AZU	31,481	46,695	56,453	63,055	70,282
Bajos de Haina	SCR	33,135	69,260	61,400	67,117	75,760
Baní	PER	36,705	47,655	61,864	72,466	77,316
Barahona (Santa Cruz de Barahona)	BAR	49,334	62,354	74,958	78,995	84,940
Bayaguana	MPL	...	12,704	19,351	20,303	24,878
Boca Chica	DN	...	...	46,385	75,827	76,007
Bonao	MSN	44,486	69,672	72,821	68,602	71,767
Cabral	BAR	...	11,489	12,175	12,221	13,302
Cambita Garabitos (incl. Cambita El Pueblecito)	SCR	...	6,565	12,519	15,514	16,818
Comendador (Elías Piña)	EPI	5,962	8,261	11,391	13,881	15,083
Constanza	LVE	15,141	18,176	27,090	25,683	30,388
Consuelo	SPM	...	17,975	25,034	25,463	30,737
Cotuí (incl. Quita Sueño)	SRA	16,688	42,500	42,115	47,905	52,535
Dajabón	DAJ	8,808	12,589	16,328	20,353	24,495
El Factor	MTS	...	4,915	6,882	7,604	9,846
El Seibo (Santa Cruz del Seibo)	ESE	13,511	16,522	22,489	26,477	28,976
Esperanza	VAL	...	34,073	41,189	38,746	42,469
Fantino	SRA	...	7,904	9,592	9,459	10,274
Hato del Yaque	SAN	...	...	...	23,637	26,450
Hato Mayor del Rey	HMA	17,859	25,467	34,006	37,798	45,039
Higüey (Salvaleón de Higüey)	LAL	33,501	54,832	103,502	147,978	210,278
Jarabacoa	LVE	13,416	18,508	27,370	26,996	30,953
Jimaní	IND	3,327	3,911	5,842	10,026	11,346
La Caleta	DN	...	...	...	24,698	28,944
La Guáyiga	DN	...	...	...	19,971	36,318
La Mata	SRA	...	8,955	10,034	10,102	9,879
La Otra Banda	LAL	...	3,081	5,307	10,471	20,232
La Romana (incl. Villa Hermosa, Cumayasa, Caleta)	LRO	91,571	140,204	191,303	224,882	265,313
Las Guáranas	DUA	...	11,032	9,858	10,371	10,521
Las Matas de Farfán	SJU	...	18,842	21,271	23,161	26,961
Las Matas de Santa Cruz	MCR	...	7,533	9,822	9,481	9,920
Las Palomas	SAN	...	...	...	12,202	14,316
Las Terrenas	SAM	...	3,902	7,296	11,124	12,818
La Vega (Concepción de la Vega)	LVE	52,432	87,162	98,386	104,536	123,677
La Victoria	DN	...	...	13,112	20,064	26,459
Los Alcarrizos (incl. Pantoja, Palmarejo-Villa Linda)	DN	...	...	166,930	245,269	282,799
Maimón	MSN	...	8,678	14,514	15,993	19,386
Mao	VAL	33,527	43,229	47,828	49,714	59,717
Miches	ESE	...	7,984	9,575	9,250	11,309
Moca	ESP	31,176	50,449	59,174	65,445	63,158
Monte Cristi (San Fernando de Monte Cristi)	MCR	...	11,487	15,629	15,141	18,773
Monte Plata	MPL	...	12,954	14,850	16,115	15,468
Nagua	MTS	20,912	26,013	32,035	38,540	40,933
Neiba	BAO	...	17,596	18,305	21,063	24,928
Paya	PER	...	...	6,554	7,805	9,990
Pedernales	PED	...	8,044	10,339	13,077	20,595
Pedro Brand	DN	...	...	22,695	35,087	34,541
Peralta	AZU	...	4,620	7,485	10,584	9,321
Piedra Blanca	MSN	...	5,744	8,285	7,687	10,296
Pimentel	DUA	...	10,587	9,849	9,868	10,325
Puerto Plata (San Felipe de Puerto Plata)	PPL	45,348	89,423	112,036	118,496	132,878
Punta Cana (Verón Punta Cana)	LAL	...	...	...	37,286	90,537
Quisqueya	SPM	...	12,273	15,912	15,911	20,034
Río San Juan	MTS	...	7,149	8,813	9,791	11,157
Sabana de la Mar	HMA	9,983	10,884	13,495	12,877	15,797
Sabana Grande de Boyá	MPL	...	14,334	16,291	18,026	20,929
Sabana Yegua	AZU	...	9,499	10,395	10,313	10,674
Sabaneta (San Ignacio de Sabaneta)	SRO	9,170	15,510	16,270	15,648	19,116
Salcedo	HMI	...	12,775	11,994	13,803	13,897
Samaná (Santa Bárbara de Samaná)	SAM	5,023	8,543	10,692	13,857	15,747
San Antonio de Guerra	DN	...	...	...	14,866	15,986
Sánchez	SAM	7,919	10,714	11,058	11,211	11,241
San Cristóbal (Beneménta de San Cristóbal)	SCR	58,520	88,605	137,422	138,455	167,466
San Francisco de Macorís	DUA	64,906	108,485	122,179	132,725	143,726
San Gregorio de Nigua	SCR	...	...	10,798	12,867	17,519
San José de Ocoa	SJO	...	21,033	21,226	22,383	26,487
San Juan de la Maguana	SJU	49,764	61,690	70,969	71,494	78,716
San Luis	DN	...	...	...	26,453	29,057
San Pedro de Macorís	SPM	78,562	124,735	193,713	185,255	207,378
Santiago de los Caballeros (incl. Santiago Oeste, San Francisco de Jacagua)	SAN	278,638	365,463	507,418	560,074	612,595
Santo Domingo (Santo Domingo de Guzman)	DN	1,313,172	1,609,699	1,887,586	2,581,827	2,752,784
Tamboril	SAN	...	17,832	21,939	24,825	24,820
Vicente Noble	BAR	...	2,248	10,848	11,433	13,302
Villa Altagracia	SCR	20,890	27,671	36,791	38,862	42,624
Villa Bisonó (Navarrete)	SAN	...	19,608	29,723	31,608	37,463
Villa González	SAN	...	6,328	9,497	13,752	11,758
Villa Jaragua	BAO	...	7,818	9,353	9,490	11,329
Villa Montellano	PPL	...	...	8,967	12,264	11,588
Villa Vásquez	MCR	...	10,489	11,353	10,681	12,302
Yamasá	MPL	...	6,438	11,400	12,716	15,064

(1993) (2002) (2010) (2022) La Oficina Nacional de Estadística.

Population Structure

Further information about the population structure.

Gender (C 2022)
Males	5,328,021
Females	5,445,962

Age Groups (C 2022)
0-14 years	2,690,600
15-64 years	7,085,051
65+ years	998,224

Age Distribution (C 2022)
90+ years	44,996
80-89 years	180,690
70-79 years	433,052
60-69 years	765,997
50-59 years	1,094,342
40-49 years	1,291,118
30-39 years	1,571,357
20-29 years	1,837,001
10-19 years	1,763,562
0-9 years	1,791,760

Urbanization (C 2022)
Rural	2,979,452
Urban	7,794,531