The Dominican Republic Congress is currently reviewing at least 26 legislative initiatives aimed at modifying the nation's territorial division. These proposals seek to create new municipalities and provinces, potentially increasing the existing administrative structure of 158 municipalities and 32 provinces.
The push for these changes comes as lawmakers consider numerous requests to reconfigure local governance boundaries. The potential expansion of the country's administrative map remains a subject of ongoing legislative debate within the national government.
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