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Country (long form)	Commonwealth of Dominica
Capital	Roseau
Total Area	291.12 sq mi 754.00 sq km (slightly more than four times the size of Washington, DC)
Population	70,786 (July 2001 est.)
Estimated Population in 2050	81,961
Languages	English (official), French patois
Literacy	94.0% total, 94.0% male, 94% female (1970 est.)
Religions	Roman Catholic 77%, Protestant 15% (Methodist 5%, Pentecostal 3%, Seventh-Day Adventist 3%, Baptist 2%, other 2%), none 2%, other 6%
Life Expectancy	70.74 male, 76.61 female (2001 est.)
Government Type	parliamentary democracy; republic within the Commonwealth
Currency	1 East Caribbean dollar (EC$) = 100 cents
GDP (per capita)	$4,000 (2000 est.)
Industry	soap, coconut oil, tourism, copra, furniture, cement blocks, shoes
Agriculture	bananas, citrus, mangoes, root crops, coconuts, cocoa; forest and fishery potential not exploited
Arable Land	9%
Natural Resources	timber, hydropower, arable land

Dominica, or Commonwealth of Dominica, an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies.

The first inhabititants of Dominica were the Arawak and then the Carib Indians. It was reached by Christopher Columbus in 1493.