White Dominicans
Dominican people of predominant European descent / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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White Dominicans (Spanish: "Dominicanos blancos") are Dominican people of predominant or full European descent.[1] They are 17.8% of the Dominican Republic's population, according to a 2021 survey by the United Nations Population Fund.[2] The majority of white Dominicans have ancestry from the first European settlers to arrive in Hispaniola in 1492 and are descendants of the Spanish and Portuguese who settled in the island during colonial times, as well as the French who settled in the 17th and 18th centuries. Many whites in the Dominican Republic also descend from Italians,[3][4] Dutchmen,[3][4] Germans,[3] Hungarians, Scandinavians, Americans[3][4] and other nationalities who have migrated between the 19th and 20th centuries.[3][4] About 9.2% of the Dominican population claims a European immigrant background, according to the 2021 Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas survey.[2]
Total population | |
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Approximately 1,900,000 (2021) (17.8%)[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Chiefly in Espaillat, Santiago, Santiago Rodríguez and Valverde; also in Distrito Nacional, Hermanas Mirabal, La Vega and Monte Christi | |
Languages | |
Dominican Spanish |
White Dominicans historically made up a larger percentage in the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo and for a time were the single largest ethnic group prior to the 19th century.[5][6] Similar to the rest of the Hispanic Caribbean, the majority of Spaniards who settled the Dominican Republic came from southern Spain, Andalusia and the Canary Islands, the latter of whom are of partial North African Guanche descent.