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Dessalines

Dessalines usually referred to as Marchand-Dessalines, is a commune in the department of . It is named after Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler and emperor of independent Haiti.
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  • Type: Town with 26,200 residents
  • Description: town in Haiti
  • Also known as: “Dessalines-Marchandes”, “Marchand”, and “Marchand-Dessalines”

Dessalines

Latitude
19.26131° or 19° 15′ 41″ north
Longitude
-72.51702° or 72° 31′ 1″ west
Population
26,200
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
Open location code
77F97F6M+G5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1903213973
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3726540
Wiki­data ID
Q1200898
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Dessalines” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ديسالين”
  • Cebuano: “Dessalines”
  • Chinese: “Dessalines”
  • Chinese: “德萨林”
  • Dutch: “Dessalines”
  • French: “Dessalines (ville)”
  • French: “Dessalines”
  • German: “Dessalines (Stadt)”
  • German: “Dessalines”
  • Greek: “Ντεσαλίν”
  • Haitian: “Desalin (komin)”
  • Haitian: “Desalin”
  • Italian: “Dessalines”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dessalines”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “De Salinas”
  • Polish: “Dessalines”
  • Portuguese: “Dessalines”
  • Romanian: “Dessalines”
  • Russian: “Дессалин”
  • Spanish: “Dessalines”
  • Swedish: “Dessalines”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dessalines”. Photo: André Lachance, CC BY-SA 3.0.