Italian Dominicans
Italian Dominicans (Italian: italo-dominicani; Spanish: ítalo-dominicanos) are Dominican-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to the Dominican Republic during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in the Dominican Republic. The Italian community in the Dominican Republic, considering both people of Italian ancestry and Italian birth, is the largest in the Caribbean region.
Francisco Gregorio Billini, President of the Dominican Republic in 1884–85, was an Italian Dominican with grandparents from Ravenna | |
| Total population | |
| c. 50,000 (by birth) c. 300,000 (by ancestry, corresponding to about 3% of the total population) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Boca Chica, Santiago de los Caballeros, La Romana and Santo Domingo | |
| Languages | |
| Dominican Spanish · Italian and Italian dialects | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholic | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Italians, Italian Americans, Italian Argentines, Italian Bolivians, Italian Brazilians, Italian Canadians, Italian Chileans, Italian Colombians, Italian Costa Ricans, Italian Cubans, Italian Ecuadorians, Italian Guatemalans, Italian Haitians, Italian Hondurans, Italian Mexicans, Italian Panamanians, Italian Paraguayans, Italian Peruvians, Italian Puerto Ricans, Italian Salvadorans, Italian Uruguayans, Italian Venezuelans |
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