Interesting facts/current culture

-Baseball is the most popular sport.
-sugar,tobacco,cocoa,and coffee are the main exports.
-Dominican Republic is one of the worlds most geographically diverse nations for its size
-there population is about 10.4 million people
-over 800,000 children play organized baseball in the DR
-only flag that has the bible in it
-Spanish is the official language
- on the 16th of February the Dominican Republic celebrated their 168th year of dependence
-about 97% of the population has access to pure drinking water
-in 2005 approximately 5% of the population was over 65 years old
-the economy was originally based primarily on architecture
-GDP was estimated at 58.5 billion dollars