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D. Santo Domingo is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas. It was founded in 1496 by Bartholomew Columbus, whose brother, Christopher, first visited the island four years earlier.
B. About 80 percent of Haiti's nearly 10 million people live in poverty compared with about 34 percent of the 10.3 million people on the Dominican Republic side of the island. The richest 1 percent of the population own nearly half of Haiti's wealth.
C. With more than 40,852 square miles, Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean Sea followed by Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Trinidad. Cuba's population of about 11 million is much less than the roughly 20 million people living on the 29,529 square miles of Hispaniola.
A. An archipelago is a chain, cluster or collection of islands. The Greater Antilles contain over 94 percent of the land mass and over 90 percent of the population of the entire West Indies. Together with the Lesser Antilles chain of smaller islands to the east, the Antilles follow the northern and eastern borders of the Caribbean.