Hispaniola

Caribbean island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti

Hispaniola is an island in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean, located between Cuba and Puerto Rico. It is the most populous island in the West Indies and the second-largest by land area, after Cuba. Covering an area of 76,192-square-kilometre (29,418 sq mi), it is divided into two separate sovereign countries: the Spanish–speaking Dominican Republic (48,445 km² (18,705 sq mi)) to the east and the French and Haitian Creole–speaking Haiti (27,750 km² (10,710 sq mi)) to the west.

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