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{{Infobox settlement
| name                     = Distrito Nacional
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| settlement_type          = [[Provinces of the Dominican Republic|District]]
| image_skyline            = File:Ciudad de Santo Domingo de Guzmán - Distrito Nacional.png
| image_caption            = Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic capital
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| image_shield             = Escudo del Municipio Santo Domingo.svg
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| image_map                = Distrito Nacional in Dominican Republic (special marker).svg
| map_caption              = Location of the Distrito Nacional
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| coordinates_footnotes    = <!-- government type, leaders -->
| leader_title             = [[Congress of the Dominican Republic|Congress]]persons
| leader_name              = 1 Senator <br />18 Deputies
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| governing_body           = 1 [[Municipality|municipalities]]<br />0 [[List of municipalities of the Dominican Republic#Administration|municipal districts]]
<!-- established -->| established_title        = District since
| established_date         = 1932
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| area_total_km2           = 104.44
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| population_as_of         = {{Metadata Population Dominican province|YEAR}}
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| population_total         = {{Metadata Population Dominican province|Distrito Nacional}}
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| blank_name               = Area code
| blank_info               = 1-809 1-829 1-849
| blank1_name              = [[ISO 3166-2]]
| blank1_info              = DM-01
| blank2_name              = Postal Code
| blank2_info              = 10100 to 10699
<!-- website, footnotes -->| website                  = http://www.adn.gov.do
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The '''Distrito Nacional''' is a subdivision of the [[Dominican Republic]] enclosing the capital [[Santo Domingo]], so it is not in any of the [[Provinces of the Dominican Republic|provinces]]. It is a [[municipality]] but, in some aspects, it is like a province; for example, it elects one [[senator]] to the [[congress]].

Before 16 October 2001, the Distrito Nacional was much larger, including what is now the [[Santo Domingo Province]].
== Location ==
The Distrito Nacional ("National District") is in the south [[coast]] of the country. It has the Santo Domingo province to the north, east and west, and the [[Caribbean Sea]] to the south.
== History ==
The Distrito Nacional was created by the [[Dominican Republic|Dominican]] [[constitution]] of 1844 as a province: the ''Santo Domingo'' province (different from the modern province of the same name). It had the [[Municipality|municipalities]] of [[Santo Domingo]], [[Baní]], [[San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic|San Cristóbal]], San José de Los Llanos, [[Monte Plata]], Bayaguana and Boyá.

In 1932, its name was changed to ''Provincia Nacional'' and all municipalities that were to the north of the Isabela and [[River Ozama|Ozama]] rivers became part of the [[San Cristóbal Province|San Cristóbal]] province.

In 1934, the name was changed to ''Distrito Nacional'' and, instead of a province, it became like a municipality. The name was changed again to ''Distrito de Santo Domingo'' but the 1955 constitution changed it back to ''Distrito Nacional''.<ref>{{cite book
| first =Werner D.
| last =Féliz
| title =División Político-Territorial Dominicana 1944-2004
| publisher =CONAU
| date =2004
| location =Santo Domingo
| language =Spanish }}</ref>
== Population ==
In {{Metadata Population Dominican province|YEAR}} (last national census), there were {{formatnum:{{Metadata Population Dominican province|Distrito Nacional}}}} people living in the Distrito Nacional, second only to the Santo Domingo province. The [[population density]] was {{Pop density|{{Metadata Population Dominican province|Distrito Nacional}}|91.6|km2|prec=1|disp=num}} persons/km², the highest density in the country.<ref name="r-pop">{{Metadata Population Dominican province|Quelle}}</ref>

Its population represents {{Percentage|{{Metadata Population Dominican province|Distrito Nacional}}|9445281|2 }} of the total population of the country and the province is [[Ranked list of Dominican Provinces#By population|ranked]] as the 2nd (out of 31 plus the National District) more populated administrative division.

{{As of|2016}}, the total estimated propulation of the province is 1,015,150 inhabitants.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.one.gob.do/Multimedia/Download?ObjId=7709 |format=XLS |title=REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA: Población por año calendario, según sexo y grupos quinquenales de edad, 2015-2020 |publisher=Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE) |language=Spanish |accessdate=3 December 2016 |archive-date=24 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624155020/http://www.one.gob.do/Multimedia/Download?ObjId=7709 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Geography ==
The two important rivers in the Distrito Nacional are [[River Ozama|Ozama]] and Isabela. The river Ozama is the eastern limit of the Distrito Nacional and separates it from [[Santo Domingo Este]], head municipality of the Santo Domingo province. The river Isabela, a [[tributary]] of the Ozama, is the northern limit of the Distrito Nacional and separates it from Santo Domingo Norte.
== Climate ==
The climate of the province is a [[tropical]] climate, warm during the whole year.

{{wide image|Santo Domingo Panorama.jpg|600px|Panorama of Distrito Nacional|alt=Panorama of Distrito Nacional}}

== Distrito Nacional Media ==
<gallery widths='160px' heights='100%' mode='traditional' caption=''>
File:Barrio mapa Distrito Nacional.svg|neighborhood map of Distrito Nacional

File:Instituto San Juan Bautista de la Salle, Santo Domingo.jpg|Bella Vista, Dominican Republic skyline

File:Procuraduria RD.jpg|Centro de los Héroes neighborhood

File:Gascue, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - panoramio (3).jpg|Gazcue neighborhood, Dominican Republic

File:Parque Mirador Sur - Santo Domingo.jpg|Parque Mirador Sur, Santo Domingo
</gallery>
== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Dominican provinces}}

[[Category:Provinces of the Dominican Republic]]
[[Category:1932 establishments in North America]]
[[Category:1930s establishments in the Dominican Republic]]