Here are some fun facts about Dominica:

1) It's a different country than the Dominican Republic, so stop confusing them; 
2) the name Dominica comes from the Latin word for Sunday, which is the day that Christopher Columbus spotted it (der), but it's pre-Columbian is Caribs, which means "tall is her body";
3) with more than 70,000 people, Dominica is the 204th most populated country in the world--only nine other sovereign nations have fewer people; 
4) Dominica is home to the second largest hot spring in the world, Boiling Lake.