Cité Soleil
Cité Soleil is an extremely impoverished and densely populated commune located in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area in Haiti. 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.
- Town with about 265,000 residents
- Description: municipality in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Also known as“Cité Simone”“Cité Simone Duvalier”
Places of Interest
Discover Port-au-Prince Cathedral and National Library of Haiti.
Port-au-Prince Cathedral
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, often…
National Library of Haiti
The National Library of Haiti is Haiti's legal deposit…
3½ km south of Cité Soleil
Marché en Fer
Marché en Fer or Marché de Fer also known as the…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port-au-Prince and Bel Air.
Port-au-Prince
ויקיג’אנקי, Public domain.
Port-au-Prince is the capital and most populous city of Haiti.
Bel Air
Suburb
Bel Air is a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Cité Soleil
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Latitude
18.5784° or 18° 34′ 42″ north
Longitude
-72.3355° or 72° 20′ 8″ west
Open location code
77C9HMH7+8Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Cité Soleil” goes by many names.
سيتي سولايArabic
Сітэ-СалейBelarusian
সাইত সোলিলBengali
Cité SoleilCebuano
太阳城Chinese
太陽城Chinese
Cité SoleilDanish
Cité SoleilDutch
Cité SoleilEsperanto
Civito SunaEsperanto
Cité SoleilFinnish
Σιτέ-ΣολέιγGreek
સિટી સોલેઈલGujarati
Site SolèyHaitian
सिते सोलेयHindi
Port-au-PrinceHungarian
Cité SoleilIndonesian
Cité SoleilItalian
シテ・ソレイユJapanese
ಸಿಟ್ ಸೊಲೈಲ್Kannada
시테 솔레이Korean
시티 솔레리Korean
SitesoleiLatvian
Site SoleilasLithuanian
Cite SoleilMalay
साईट सोलेईलMarathi
Cité SoleilMin Nan Chinese
Cité SoleilNorwegian
Cité SoleilNorwegian Bokmål
Cité SoleilPolish
Cité SoleilRomanian
Ките СолеилRussian
Сите-СолейRussian
සයිටේ සොලෙයිල්Sinhala
Cité SoleilSwedish
சிடி சோலில்Tamil
సిటే సోలైల్Telugu
ซิทอี โซเลียวThai
Cite SoleilTurkish
Сіте-СолейUkrainian
کیتی سولییلUrdu
Cite SoleilVietnamese
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