Countries

Dominica

Dominica is a mountainous, rainforest-covered island between Guadeloupe and Martinique, known as the Nature Island of the Caribbean. Independent from Britain since 1978, it is home to the Kalinago Territory and the steaming Boiling Lake.

A narrow stepped path climbing through dense green rainforest in Morne Trois Pitons National Park, Dominica

Morne Trois Pitons National Park

Photo: Aneil Lutchman, CC BY-SA 2.0

Green for the forests, and a cross of yellow, black and white for the people and the land. The Sisserou parrot is the national bird; the ten stars are the ten parishes. Adopted in 1978.

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