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International telephone access code

ISO 3166 country codes

Car nationality plate code

Internet country code

GRC Country Code

   1,234.45

(where . indicates the decimal separator and , the thousands separator)

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Spanish , the official language, is spoken by some 87% of the population. About 2% speak Haitian Creole French . There is a community of 8 000 Samaná English speakers on the Samaná Peninsula .

   Note: This section last updated 30th November 2015

The abbreviation used for Señorita in Dominican Republic is Srta.

Each person usually has a given name followed by two family names, that of the father followed by that of the mother, for example:

   Barbara Betancourt Perez

Upon marriage, though not typical, females may take their husband’s name as a further given name, in this way:

   Barbara Betancourt Perez de Lopez

where the de indicates “(wife) of”. De usually indicates a married female, but may also be part of a name.

Professional people are often referred to by their qualification, followed by the given name and paternal family name (and sometimes the maternal family name):

   Doctor (m) / Doctora (f) (Dr/Dra)      Doctor, Ph.D.
   Ingeniero (m) / Ingeniera (f) (Ing.)   Engineer
   Licenciado (m) / Licenciada (f) (Lic.) Holder of a university degree

   Tables of names can be acquired: given names , surnames/family names , family name prefixes , forms of address , job titles 

Company legal forms used in the Dominican Republic include:

   C. x A. (Compañía por Acciones) -  limited partnership
   S.A. (Sociedad Anónima) - public limited company

   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http:www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm 

   Note: This section last updated 21st June 2020

Addresses are written in the following format:

   Recipient name
   {thoroughfare type[]}Thoroughfare name[ ]house number
   postal code[ ]SETTLEMENT

For example:

A district or neighbourhood name may be written on the line above that containing the postal code:

When addresses are written in Spanish, calle (or C/), the Spanish word for street, may not be written. The Spanish thoroughfare type, when included, is written before, and separately from, the thoroughfare name. It should be written with the first letter in lower case.

For further information about address components, please refer to the chapter on Spain.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

This is written Apartado Postal.

   Note: This section last updated 21st June 2020

Postal codes (Código Postal) consist of a block of 5 digits in the format:

   99999

The first digit may not be 0. These postal code ranges are currently not in use: 100, 12-20, 26-30, 35-40, 44-50, 52-55, 58-60, 65-70, 74-80, 85-90, 95-99. The first two or three digits of the code indicate the province.

A planned system changing to the format 99999-9999 has not been implemented.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

Dominican Republic - Postal code format graphic

Dominican Republic - Postal code format

Dominican Republic - Postal code specifics

Dominican Republic - Postal code regular expression

Dominican Republic - Postal code level of coverage

Dominican Republic - Postal code map

   Note: This section last updated 5th March 2016

Refer to Exonyms in the Dominican Republic for full lists of place names in the Dominican Republic in other languages.

Dominican Republic has 31 provinces ( provincias, singular - provincia) and 1 district (distrito, shown in the list below with an asterisk).

Province	Postal code area
Azua	71
Bahoruco	82
Barahona	81
Dajabón	63
Distrito Nacional *	101-106
Duarte	31
Elías Piña	73
El Seibo	24
Espaillat	56
Hato Mayor	25
Hermanas Mirabal (previously Salcedo)	34
Independencia	83
La Altagracia	23
La Romana	22
La Vega	41
Maria Trinidad Sánchez	33
Monseñor Nouel	42
Monte Cristi	62
Monte Plata	92
Pedernales	84
Peravia	94
Puerto Plata	57
Samaná	32
Sánchez Ramírez	43
San Cristóbal	91
San José de Ocoa	93
San Juan de la Maguana	72
San Pedro de Macorís	21
Santiago	51
Santiago Rodríguez	64
Santo Domingo	107-109, 11
Valverde	61

   This regions/postal code data can be acquired as a data file 

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All telephone numbers in Dominican Republic have the area code ‘829’ (‘809’ before July 2005). Subscriber numbers have 7 digits. Mobile number subscriber numbers begin with one of these number series: 201, 204, 213, 222-224, 249-254, 256-258, 261-263, 267-276, 278-279, 281, 283-286, 292-293, 299, 301-310, 312, 314, 321-327, 330, 340-345, 348, 350, 355, 360, 366, 370, 374, 376, 383, 395-396, 399, 415-421, 423, 424, 428-432, 436-449, 451-454, 456-459, 470, 481, 49, 515, 519, 542-543, 545, 604, 624, 628-632, 634-635, 637, 639-653, 656, 658-659, 662, 664, 669-671, 696-697, 702, 707, 710, 723, 727, 729, 740, 744, 747, 749-769, 771-777, 780, 785-788, 790, 796, 799, 801-805, 815-819, 829-830, 834-835, 837-858, 860-870, 873-887, 889-890, 912-918, 928-929, 932, 935, 938-946, 952-953, 958, 961-969, 972-975, 977-984, 986, 99.

   Tables of telephone number information/formats can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/telephone.htm