List of municipalities of the Dominican Republic

[2] It was enacted in 1959 and has been frequently amended to create new provinces, municipalities and lower-level administrative units.

[4] The provinces as the second level of political and administrative division contain at least two municipalities.

The Distrito Nacional, which is neither a municipality nor a province, consists of only one municipality, Santo Domingo (Constitution: "the city of Santo Domingo de Guzmán is the Distrito Nacional"[5]).

The Municipal Council is an exclusively normative, regulatory and supervisory body, the Mayor's Office the executive one.

[13] Municipalities are often given special designations because of their number of inhabitants: ciudad (city) in the case of urban centers with over 10,000 inhabitants or the capital of a province, villas (town) in the case of towns with over 1,000 inhabitants or seats of a local government, poblados (village) in the case of villages.