Geography Now! Dominican Republic 

This is the best, unbiased representation of our country anyone has ever made, great video. Que viva la Republica Dominicana!!

Hi. I am Dominican born and raised and let me tell you this has to be the best video on Dominican geography, culture and society that I have seen on the internet. awesome job. LOVED IT!!!!!! you even got it correct when talking about our relations with Haiti and other Caribbean countries.

Hello dominicans greetings from Philippines 🇵🇭

Cuba, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, the perfect combination. 🌺

I learned more from this video in 9 minutes than 15 years in school.

Spain:France, man I Haiti you France:"facepalm"

Aquí en Italia siempre serán bienvenidos los dominicanos y los cubanos! Los amamos mucho ❤️🇮🇹🇩🇴🇨🇺

So “vaina” is the Dominican version of “jawn” in Philadelphia as in it means whatever the sentence requires it to mean lol

Great video! Thanks for representing us! Several odd and even funny mistakes (the Jarabacoa-Punta Cana Beach? Seriously?) but overall pretty awesome! Thanks!

As a haitian, I wish we had better ties with dr, your coutry is beautiful.Ohh politics.

I'm Ethiopian/Greek and people think I'm from the Dominacan Republic

Im Dominican and Puerto Rican so thats alot😂😂🇩🇴🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇷

hi Dominican republic love you from India

I loved this!! shout out to all my panas! I'm half Dominican and Ecuadorian. Shout out to all from Santo Domingo, Azua, Hato Mayor, Estebania, Higuey ❤❤❤🤗 Love my family!!

The island looks beautiful respect from the Balkans

Dominicans are legit probably the coolest people on planet earth. I've never met an unfriendly Dominican in my life

I'm Dominican I don't think we talk that fast as people say.

Good evening my fellow frienemies. From P.R.

Hola Dominica, Te amo ❤️, de Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

I went to the DR and the people their are very friendly.

In Germany, this country is called "DDR" for "Deutsche Dominikanische Republik" (German Dominican Republic), because its full of Germans or German tourists.

One does not simply watch geography now once.

I‘m German 🇩🇪 but my father is Dominican 🇩🇴😏

Merengue is Dominican Music, not Puertorican

This is such a beautiful country! I'd love to visit it someday. Viva América Latina, a region that deserves to be more valued !! Saludos desde Brasil !

Coming from Brazil I always thought the 1 drop rule was stupid. There is a point when you could just be considered one race (besides, most people in the Americas are mixed to a degree) but if someone is only half black and only as dark as me then I really can't consider them black.

My girlfriend “ pásame me la vaina” Me: “ what vaina” Girlfriend: “ la vainita enzima de la vaina “ Me: “ O_O “ Lol I don’t understand when she talks with her family for real

Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩 Dominican Republic 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴

Welcome to the Godfather of the Caribbean. Thanks to all the Dominican Geograpeeps that helped with this one! You guys gave GREAT information! #DominicanRepublic #DR #Caribbean #Geography #Info #Facts

DIOS, PATRIA y LIBERTAD. God Bless Mi Quisqueya La Bella !!! 🇩🇴 🙌🏻

Jarabacoa is landlocked, it doesn't have any beaches.

I love the DR!!! My husband is Dominican and it's an absolute beautiful country with with beautiful people ❤ Great video

I think our ultimate favorite word of all time is "diablo". We literally use that word for everything. Good or bad, it's the Devil's fault.

how to speak dominican: Vaina vaina vaina vaina.

Dude, you don’t understand how much we love being recognized, I was screaming laughing when you were saying the slangs 😂

The Dominican Republic is a diverse mix majority nation. It is not simply a black nation. Just like the United States is not simply a WHITE nation as it has a lot of ethnicities and black people make up about 12% of the population (that would be a combination of African Americans, African immigrants directly from Africa, and black Caribbeans combined). Meanwhile as this guy correctly points out Dominicans have a population of 15-16% white (in case you haven't noticed 15% is greater than the 12% black population of the US - and we don't simply call the US a white nation do we).

Sounds like a great country!

Not even my Puerto Rican relatives speak Spanish that rapidly, and we're similar to Dominicans in many regards.

Hola a República Dominicana de Azerbaiyán. Quiero viajar aquí Porque República Dominicana tiene la tumba de Cristóbal Colón. ¡Amores de Azerbaiyán!🇦🇿❤🇩🇴

Azua (Azua) Bahoruco (Neiba) Barahona (Barahona) Dajabón (Dajabón) Distrito Nacional (Santo Domingo) Duarte (San Francisco de Macorís) El Seibo (El Seibo) Elías Piña (Comendador) Espaillat (Moca) Hato Mayor (Hato Mayor) Hermanas Mirabal (Salcedo) Independencia (Jimaní) La Altagracia (Higüey) La Romana (La Romana) La Vega (Concepción de La Vega) María Trinidad Sánchez (Nagua) Monseñor Nouel (Bonao) Monte Cristi (Monte Cristi) Monte Plata (Monte Plata) Pedernales (Pedernales) Peravia (Baní) Puerto Plata (Puerto Plata) Samaná (Samaná) San Cristóbal (San Cristóbal) San José de Ocoa (San José de Ocoa) San Juan (San Juan de la Maguana) San Pedro de Macorís (San Pedro de Macorís) Sánchez Ramírez (Cotuí) Santiago (Santiago de los Cabelleros) Santiago Rodríguez (Sabaneta) Santo Domingo (Santo Domingo Este) Valverde (Mao) Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo)

Why do the smallest countries ever always have like 500 provinces/states? Lol

As a Dominican, I feel so happy that someone has decided to have actually accurate information about us, and in such a funny format! Truly good job, and may God keep blessing this channel and allowing it to grow.

Spanish and Dominicans can be the best friends, every Spanish person I have met has been my best friend until him/her or I left

Proud to be a Dominican/American🇩🇴🇺🇸❤️

there is more to story with haiti but people do a poor job talking about the history of haiti. simon bolivar was the pillar of the indepence of almost all the countries in latin america. but haiti was the first one to be liberated and helped simon bolivar achieve this. so haiti is the grand father of independence of most if not all latin american countries.

Buenísimo el video. As a Spanish language and culture teacher and a Dominican, I am pleased to see you explained, as quickly and as accurate as possible, my beautiful island. Gracias!

Algeria 🇩🇿 always stands with Dominican republic United and amicably

I'm Dominican and what he said is truth Cuba and Puerto Rico are our favorite neighbors and the three islands have many things in common

also one more thing i guess you forgot to mention Barbie, Dominican Republic is the only country in the planet where the Larimar (the blue mineral at 4:04) can be found and and its used mostly for jewelry . but still nice video

Dominican Republic is a wonderful country of beautiful multiracial people (European/Black and Amerindian mix) and has so much racial diversity, you can find Dominicans of European heritage (Spaniards, French, Jewish etc), Black Dominicans and even Asian Dominicans. DR also has the largest Chinese and Japanese populations in the Caribbean.

ACTUALLY The Dominican Rapublic is also part of the PARLACEN Parlamento Centroamericano with Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica so in a sense, the DR is part of Central America as well. We Guatemalans consider them business partners and brothers and share some issues concerning political subjects, economy, arts and culture :)

Yes, Dominicans,Cubans and Puerto Ricans we are cousins.Our cultures, and dialects are very similar :)! Love you all.

Some Facts about the Dominican Republic. - The 1st immigrant in the United States was Dominican, Juan (Jan) Rodriguez. Born in Santo Domingo. (Yes, before the Dutch) - One of the only countries to declare war on Hitler during ww2, to which he asked to be shown on the map where DR was. (upon seen the size of the island, he was left dazed & confused & this moment was used to score some victories by the allied forces :-) - Hatuey (native american-DR) went to Cuba to warn them of the Conquistadores & is considered their 1st national hero. - General Maximo Gomez (Dominican) Helped Cuba fight for their independence. - Carbine San Cristobal(machine gun), built in DR, was shipped to Cuba during their revolution. ... Did we ever get a thank you?.. Cuba? - During WW2, the DR had one of the strongest military in Latin America. - All the Spanish conquests during colonial times were planned in Santo Domingo. - Both Christopher Columbus and Eugenio Maria de Hostos (Puerto Rico), wished to be buried in Dominican Rep. - Cricket is played in DR, but we call it La Plaquita. - Has the 9th largest economy of Latin America and largest in the caribbean (even though its not an oil producing country) - During the era of Trujillo, the national debt was at $0.00 balance (IMF wasnt too happy) - Colon, tu maldita madre! (Mother F*&%).. Were Caonabo's words to Christopher Columbus. (Caonabo was a Taino Cacique - Ruler) ...Just a few facts

I'm from the DR y soy orgulloso de ser Dominicano

Thank you so much for a great content that I can actually show my students. So many good videos include unnecessary images/vocabulary that keep me from using them in the classroom. Keep up the good work!

great work man, as a Dominican I found it very accurate and entertaining. I could see how people from other countries would have a clearer perspective of how and what we are after watching your video. Love and respect, keep doing your thing!

I really want to see Chileans and Dominicans fight over who's the fasted 😂

My beautiful land! Dios, Patria, y Liberta

The whole reason of not telling people what 'race' they are, is because it creates more division! So when they ask you, you just say "I'm Dominican"... Many Dominicans (specially from El Cibao) have middle eastern ancestry and some of them are not even 'mixed' till this day, so it would be very tacky and presumptuous to tell one of them they MUST identify as black/taíno or European when they know where their family came from; the same can be said about Japanese and Chinese Dominicans (Which are a very small minority)... In short, Dominicana created the perfect formula to integrate all possible races without making one or the other feel like they are outsiders and it seems to ONLY make sense to us. So yeah gringos, STOP telling us who we are! We know where our relatives came from. ✌

Love Dominican Republic from italy 🇮🇹❤🇩🇴

I love Dominican Republic! Been there twice and its awesome!

If the Dominicans are the fastest Spanish speakers, who might the slowest Spanish speakers be? And how or why did the Dominicans get to be such fast talkers? The narrator of these videos is one of the fastest English speakers. I have a little bit of a problems keeping up myself. Too much information in too short of a time to be able to digest it all.

Hello dominicans ✋ greetings from India 🇮🇳 ❤️ 🇨🇿

I went to Punta Cana a few years ago and I never realized how much more to the Dominican Republic there was. I just subscribed to this channel today because I love these videos and geography so much, keep up the good work!

I would prefer it if you talked a bit more about the economy of the countries, e.g. GDP per capita and such.

I love my country ❤️🇩🇴🌴🏝

Im Dominican and thank you for explaining how we are proud of our mix race and the culture the we created from varieties of ancestors. That is what we are proud of the culture the island that we have made.

Excellent presentation! And I love the HUMOR too! :)

guys you have made a tremendous work investigating and you got all the points right, and you were considerate enough to recognize the subjects where things get into the gray area. Also my special congratulations for the narrator, very fast speaker and entertaining. (only 1 thing "quemi" is wrong we say "que me importa?" like regular spanish and when we want to shorten we say "me importaaaa" (i care) to mean "no me importa" (i don't care). Yes it might be confusing, but dominicans say positive to mean negative and the opposite depending of the context of the conversation and the tone we use.

you forgot to mention the mangu and salami

Such a beautiful country and people. When I landed they handed out a cup of rum that had like four shots. The Dominican flag meal rocks

You miss the most important word: KLK. Besides that, I really laugh with this video. DR.

I'm just happy to be Dominican🤑

The DR has an amazing flag, it looks so cool

Excellent video! Very good content and well put together. Although the part where you explain the historical differences between Haiti and DR, was not well explained. But everything else was accurate. Loved the video! Greetings from DR.

Barby, I just rather recently discovered your channel. These videos are going to be great for my students! Thank you for the engaging material.

@GeographyNow The entire context and humor within your show is brilliant and very well put together! But I did recall you saying in a previous episode that this is Geography Now opposed to History Now, inthe previous episode the knowledge was more effective with the formation of the country. The research and amount of time/energy it takes to put together one of these videos is hard and long already tough when you explained some of the history of each nation the episode becomes much more absorbing! Keep up the great work!

Really nice vid, DR is great, love from Greece!

Thank you geography now for so beautifully and skillfully teaching us about my mother country! I am a Dominican who lives in the U.S. and I take great pride in my culture and I rarely see anyone on RU-vid talk about the Dominican Republic. I agree with pretty much anything you said. I think I speak for all Dominicans when I say thank you so much for paying mind to the DR.

You're so awesome!!!! Thank you for your talent and creativity. I am doing research for a multi-cutural wearable art piece and this piece and especially your flag video on the D.R. are very helpful. Peace

"Calypso and Carnival aren't enough now!" Trinidad and Tobago: Excuse me?

Man, i love this channel sooo much. great work, keep it up guys :D

I just noticed you never spoke about Duarte, Sanchez y Mella!😢

Love your channel! And I was looking forward for Dominican Republic video. You are so accurate in all our history and I'm thankful for that. #LoveBeingDominican

Great video. This is what I called quality content. The DR has it all! Truly a blessed country :D.

A lot of those "uniquely Dominican" words are also said here in Puerto Rico

I have been there 10 years ago and I'm planning to go back next year during the summertime. The country is gorgeous and the people are super nice and hospitable. I can't wait to go back there. One recommendation I have is to not just stay in a resort. The country has so much to offer. It would be a waste to not go out and explore.

This was nicely done. Good job to you and your team.

Mi Quisqueya ♥

My beautiful country ❤️️🇩🇴

another awesome episode!

You are so well informed, my friend! On point! 👌🏽

I am a Dominican, Living in the Dominican Republic and I loved the video... Great job!

I think Vaina is the Spanish version of "Thing/y" or "Hing/y"

this was great..so informative

Fantastic video - thanks so much!!

Probably, the DR's way of thinking when it comes to mixed people is better.

osea que los primero latinos fuimos nosotros?....genial ^^

Love this channel

This channel makes me realise that I actually really really love geography. Oh, and history. I love geography and history.