Santo Domingo Norte is a municipality

Municipalities of the Dominican Republic

The provinces of the Dominican Republic are divided into two or more municipalities with the exception of the Distrito Nacional which consist of only one municipality Santo Domingo...

 of the Santo Domingo Province in the Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

. There is one municipal district

Municipal district

A municipal district is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them....

 (distrito municipal) within the municipality: La Victoria.

As of the 2008 census the municipality had 286,912 inhabitants, 264,477 living in the city itself and 22,435 in its rural district

District

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s (Secciones). 321,178 did live in its seat (cabecera literally head), 266,987 in the city of Santo Domingo Norte itself and 54,191 in its rural districts. The municipal district La Victoria had 47,664 inhabitants, 13,112 living in the city itself and 34,552 in its rural districts.

For comparison with other municipalities and municipal districts see the list of municipalities and municipal districts of the Dominican Republic.

Santo Domingo Norte was created as a municipality in 2001 by Law 163-01 splitting the Santo Domingo province from the Distrito Nacional including those parts of metropolitan Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River...

 north of the Isabela River

Isabela River

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