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| 1. | Dominica gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1978. |
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| 2. | Dominica in Latin means 'Sunday', which was the day on which it was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493. | ||
| 3. | Almost all of Dominica's 70,000 citizens are descendants of African slaves. | ||
| 4. | Boiling Lake, in the Morne Trois Pitons National Park, is one of the world's largest thermal lakes and is recognised as a World Heritage site. Currently it is the only such site in the Caribbean. |
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| 5. | English is the official language of Dominica and is universally understood. However, because of historic French domination, and to the island's location between two French-speaking territories Antillean Creole "Patois", a French-based creole language, is the mother tongue of 80% of the Dominican people. |
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| 6. | In 2004, because of its unchanged natural beauty, Dominica was chosen to be one of the major filming locations for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and its follow-up, At World's End. |
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