Cité Soleil

Cité Soleil is an extremely impoverished and densely populated commune located in the metropolitan area in . Cité Soleil originally developed as a shanty town and grew to an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 residents, the majority of whom live in extreme poverty.
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  • Type: Town with 265,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
  • Also known as: “Cité Simone”, “Cité Simone Duvalier”, and “Cite Soleil”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Port-au-Prince Cathedral and National Library of Haiti.

Church
Photo: Rabanus Flavus, Public domain.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, often called , was a cathedral in , . Built between 1884 and 1914, it was dedicated on December 13, 1928, and became the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince.

Library
Photo: Lea-Kim, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is Haiti's legal deposit library, with a collection of approximately 26,000 volumes. It is located in the capital, and is the principal library of the city. The current head of the library is Dangelo Neard. is situated 3½ km south of Cité Soleil.

Marketplace
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
or Marché de Fer also known as the Marché Hyppolite and the Marché Vallières is a public market in ’s capital, Port‑au‑Prince. It was damaged by fire in 2008 and destroyed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, but was restored.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Port-au-Prince and Bel Air.

Photo: ויקיג’אנקי, Public domain.
is the capital and most populous city of . The city's population was estimated at 1,200,000 in 2022 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894.

Suburb
is a neighborhood of , . It is a slum area of the city and suffers from poverty. Crime is widespread, and kidnappings and killings have created panic among the local population.

Suburb
is a neighborhood of , . It has one of the largest concentration of the historic Haitian gingerbread style houses present. is situated 4½ km south of Cité Soleil.

Cité Soleil

Latitude
18.5784° or 18° 34′ 42″ north
Longitude
-72.3355° or 72° 20′ 8″ west
Population
265,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
77C9HMH7+8Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 613013023
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3740007
Wiki­data ID
Q1016929
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Cité Soleil” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سيتي سولاي”
  • Belarusian: “Сітэ-Салей”
  • Bengali: “সাইত সোলিল”
  • Cebuano: “Cité Soleil”
  • Chinese: “Cité Soleil”
  • Chinese: “太阳城”
  • Chinese: “太陽城”
  • Danish: “Cite Soleil”
  • Danish: “Cité Soleil”
  • Dutch: “Cite Soleil”
  • Dutch: “Cité Soleil”
  • Dutch: “Cite-Soleil”
  • Dutch: “Cité-Soleil”
  • Esperanto: “Cité Soleil”
  • Esperanto: “Civito Suna”
  • Finnish: “Cité Soleil”
  • French: “Cite Soleil”
  • French: “Cité Soleil”
  • French: “Cité-Soleil”
  • German: “Cite Soleil”
  • German: “Cité Soleil”
  • German: “Site Soley”
  • Greek: “Σιτέ Σολέιγ”
  • Greek: “Σιτέ-Σολέιγ”
  • Gujarati: “સિટી સોલેઈલ”
  • Haitian: “Site Soley”
  • Haitian: “Site Solèy”
  • Hindi: “सिते सोलेय”
  • Hungarian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Indonesian: “Cité Soleil”
  • Italian: “Cité Soleil”
  • Japanese: “シテ・ソレイユ”
  • Japanese: “シテソレイユ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿಟ್ ಸೊಲೈಲ್”
  • Korean: “시테 솔레이”
  • Korean: “시티 솔레리”
  • Latvian: “Sitesolei”
  • Lithuanian: “Site Soleilas”
  • Malay: “Cite Soleil”
  • Marathi: “साईट सोलेईल”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cité Soleil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cité Soleil”
  • Norwegian: “Cité Soleil”
  • Polish: “Cité Soleil”
  • Portuguese: “Cité Soleil”
  • Romanian: “Cité Soleil”
  • Russian: “Сите-Солей”
  • Sinhala: “සයිටේ සොලෙයිල්”
  • Spanish: “Cite Soleil”
  • Spanish: “Cité Soleil”
  • Swedish: “Cité Soleil”
  • Tamil: “சிடி சோலில்”
  • Telugu: “సిటే సోలైల్”
  • Thai: “ซิทอี โซเลียว”
  • Turkish: “Cite Soleil”
  • Ukrainian: “Сіте-Солей”
  • Urdu: “کیتی سولییل”
  • Vietnamese: “Cite Soleil”

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