Hispaniola
Appearance
Geography | |
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Location | Caribbean Sea |
Coordinates | 19°N 71°W / 19°N 71°W |
Archipelago | Greater Antilles |
Area | 76,192 km2 (29,418 sq mi) (22nd) |
Coastline | 3,059 km (1,901 mi) |
Country | |
Dominican Republic 10,815,857 | |
Demographics | |
Population | 22,569,800 |
Density | 280.8/km2 (727/sq mi) |
Hispaniola (/ˌhɪspənˈjoʊlə/,[1] UK: /-pænˈ-/)[2][3][4][5] Cuba aur Puerto Rico ke biich me Caribbean ke Greater Antilles ke ek island hae. Hispaniola, West Indies ke sab se jaada abaadi waala island hae, aur Cuba ke baad duusra sab se barra island by area hae. Ii 76,192-square-kilometre (29,418 sq mi) island dui des me divided hae: Spanish bhasa me baat kare waala Dominican Republic (48,445 km2 (18,705 sq mi)) east me aur French bhasa aur Haitian Creole me baat kare waala Haiti (27,750 km2 (10,710 sq mi)) west me. Caribbean ke ek aur divided island hae Saint Martin, jiske France aur the Netherlands share kare hae. Christopher Columbus ke aae se pahile, Hispaniola Ciguayo, Macorix, aur Taíno log ke jagha rahaa.
- ↑ "Hispaniola". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ↑ "Hispaniola". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2020-12-02.
- ↑ translation: That That Is Spanish; Latin and or Quisqueya)
- ↑ Anglería, Pedro Mártir de (1949) (in es). Décadas del Nuevo Mundo, Tercera Década, Libro VII. Buenos Aires: Editorial Bajel.
- ↑ Las Casas, Fray Bartolomé de (1966) (in es). Apologética Histórica Sumaria. Mexico: National Autonomous University of Mexico.