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Haiti

Haiti is a country on the western half of the island of . The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, the country suffers from a myriad of social, economic, and political problems and since the 1950s, it has been in the news for all the wrong reasons.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haïtien.

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is the capital and most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 1,200,000 in 2022 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894.

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is the second largest city in Haiti with a population of 275,000 in 2015. It lies along a bay on the northern coast of the country. When Haiti was the French colony of Saint Domingue, the city was the colony's capital, then called Cap Parisian or Cap Francais.

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Island is a West Indian that forms part of Haiti, off the northwest coast of . It constitutes the commune of Île de la Tortue in the of the department of Haiti.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Central Haiti and Southern Haiti.

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covers the central and eastern section of the country, and is home to the capital, .

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is the most laid-back region of the country, home to its Caribbean coast, remote beach towns, both of the country's only two national parks, and the popular tourist spot of .

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lies along the Atlantic side of the country and includes the northern peninsula. It is the area most visited by tourists, due to its relative safety and the presence of Labadee, a popular cruise ship excursion site.

Haiti

Latitude of center
19.02° or 19° 1′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
-72.565° or 72° 33′ 54″ west
Population
9,800,000
Area
27,750 km² (10,714 miles²)
Elevation
1,100 metres (3,609 feet)
Capital
Currency
Gourde (HTG)
Phone code
.ht
Internet domain
509
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424297281
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3723988
Wiki­data ID
Q790
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Haiti” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ареспублика Гаити”
  • Abkhazian: “Гаити”
  • Abkhazian: “Ҳаити”
  • Afrikaans: “Haïti”
  • Akan: “Heiti”
  • Albanian: “Haiti”
  • Albanian: “Haitia”
  • Amharic: “ሀይቲ”
  • Amharic: “ሃይቲ”
  • Amis: “Haiti”
  • Angika: “हैती”
  • Arabic: “هايتى”
  • Arabic: “هايتي”
  • Aragonese: “Haití”
  • Armenian: “Հայիթի”
  • Arpitan: “Hayiti”
  • Assamese: “হাইটি”
  • Asturian: “Haití”
  • Atayal: “Haiti”
  • Atikamekw: “Haiti”
  • Atikamekw: “ht”
  • Aymara: “Ayti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Haiti”
  • Balinese: “Haiti”
  • Bambara: “Ayiti”
  • Banjar: “Haiti”
  • Bashkir: “Гаити Республикаһы”
  • Basque: “Haiti”
  • Bavarian: “Haiti”
  • Belarusian: “Гаіці”
  • Belarusian: “Рэспубліка Гаіці”
  • Bengali: “হাইতি প্রজাতন্ত্র”
  • Bengali: “হাইতি”
  • Betawi: “Haiti”
  • Bhojpuri: “हैती”
  • Bishnupriya: “হাইতি”
  • Bislama: “Haiti”
  • Bosnian: “Haiti”
  • Breton: “Haiti”
  • Breton: “Republik Haiti”
  • Bulgarian: “Хаити”
  • Burmese: “ဟေတီ”
  • Burmese: “ဟေတီနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Haití”
  • Cebuano: “Haiti”
  • Central Bikol: “Haiti”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھایتی”
  • Chavacano: “Haiti”
  • Chechen: “Гаити Пачхьалкх”
  • Chechen: “Гаити Республика”
  • Chechen: “Гаити”
  • Chinese: “Haiti”
  • Chinese: “海地”
  • Chuvash: “Гаити”
  • Cornish: “Hayti”
  • Cornish: “Heyti”
  • Corsican: “Haiti”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Haiti”
  • Croatian: “Haiti”
  • Czech: “Haiti”
  • Dagbani: “Haiti”
  • Danish: “Haiti”
  • Dhivehi: “ހެއިޓީ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Haiti”
  • Dotyali: “हाइटि”
  • Dotyali: “हाईटी”
  • Dutch: “Haïti”
  • Dutch: “HT”
  • Dutch: “HTI”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Haïti”
  • Dzongkha: “ཧེ་ཊི”
  • Eastern Mari: “Гаити”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هاييتى”
  • Erzya: “Гаити Республикась”
  • Esperanto: “Haitio”
  • Esperanto: “HT”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Haitio”
  • Estonian: “Haiiti”
  • Estonian: “Haiti”
  • Ewe: “Haiti nutome”
  • Ewe: “Haiti”
  • Extremaduran: “Aití”
  • Faroese: “Haiti”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Haiti”
  • Finnish: “Haiti”
  • Finnish: “Haitin tasavalta”
  • French: “Haiti”
  • French: “Haïti”
  • French: “HT”
  • French: “la République d’Haïti”
  • French: “République d’Haïti”
  • Friulian: “Haiti”
  • Fulah: “Hayti”
  • Fulah: “Haytii”
  • Gagauz: “Haiti”
  • Galician: “Haití”
  • Ganda: “Hayiti”
  • Georgian: “ჰაიტი”
  • German: “Haiti”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Haiti”
  • Gilaki: “هائيتي”
  • Goan Konkani: “Haiti”
  • Goan Konkani: “हैती”
  • Greek: “Αϊτή”
  • Guarani: “Haiti”
  • Gujarati: “હૈતિ”
  • Gujarati: “હૈતી”
  • Haitian: “Ayiti”
  • Haitian: “ht”
  • Haitian: “Repiblik d Ayiti”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Haiti”
  • Hausa: “Haiti”
  • Hawaiian: “Heiti”
  • Hebrew: “האיטי”
  • Hindi: “हाइती”
  • Hindi: “हैती”
  • Hungarian: “Haiti Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Haiti”
  • Icelandic: “Haítí”
  • Ido: “Haiti”
  • Igbo: “Hati”
  • Iloko: “Haiti”
  • Inari Sami: “Haiti täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Haiti”
  • Indonesian: “Haiti”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Haiti”
  • Interlingua: “Haiti”
  • Interlingue: “Haiti”
  • Irish: “Háití”
  • Irish: “Háítí”
  • Italian: “Haiti”
  • Italian: “Repubblica d’Haiti”
  • Italian: “République d’Haïti”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Ieti”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Ripoblik a Ieti”
  • Japanese: “ハイチ”
  • Japanese: “ハイチ共和国”
  • Javanese: “Haiti”
  • Kabyle: “Haiti”
  • Kabyle: “Hayti”
  • Kabyle: “Tagduda n Hayti”
  • Kalaallisut: “Haiti”
  • Kannada: “ಹೈಟಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಹೈತಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gaiti”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Гаити”
  • Kashmiri: “ہایتی”
  • Kazakh: “Гаити”
  • Khmer: “ហៃទី”
  • Kikuyu: “Haiti”
  • Kinaray-A: “Ayti”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Hayiti”
  • Kirghiz: “Гаити Республикасы”
  • Kirghiz: “Гаити”
  • Komi: “Гаити”
  • Kongo: “Ayiti”
  • Korean: “아이티”
  • Korean: “하이티”
  • Kotava: “Ayitia”
  • Kurdish: “Haîtî”
  • Ladin: “Haiti”
  • Ladino: “Ayti”
  • Lao: “ໄຮຕິ”
  • Latin: “Haitia”
  • Latvian: “Haiti”
  • Ligurian: “Haiti”
  • Limburgan: “Haïti”
  • Lingala: “Ayiti”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Aiti”
  • Literary Chinese: “海地”
  • Lithuanian: “Haitis”
  • Livvi: “Gaiti”
  • Lojban: “lo gugdexetu”
  • Lombard: “Haiti”
  • Low German: “Haiti”
  • Low German: “Haïti”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Haiti”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Ayiti”
  • Lule Sami: “Hájtti”
  • Luxembourgish: “Haiti”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Haiti”
  • Macedonian: “Хаити”
  • Madurese: “Haiti”
  • Malagasy: “Haiti”
  • Malagasy: “Haitỳ”
  • Malay: “Haiti”
  • Malay: “هايتي”
  • Malayalam: “ഹെയ്തി”
  • Malayalam: “ഹെയ്റ്റി”
  • Malayalam: “റിപ്പബ്ലിക് ഓഫ് ഹെയ്റ്റി”
  • Maltese: “Haiti”
  • Maltese: “Ħaiti”
  • Maltese: “il-Haiti”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Haiti”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍꯥꯢꯇꯤ”
  • Manx: “Haiti”
  • Maori: “Haiti”
  • Marathi: “हैती”
  • Mazanderani: “هائیتی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Haiti”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ayiti”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Haiti”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Haïti”
  • Minangkabau: “Haiti”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰაიტი”
  • Moksha: “Гаити”
  • Mongolian: “Гаити”
  • Mongolian: “Гайти”
  • Mongolian: “Хаити”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “هايتي”
  • Nauru: “Aiti”
  • Nepali: “हाइटी”
  • Nepali: “हैटी”
  • Newari: “हेइटी”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Haiti”
  • North Ndebele: “Hayiti”
  • Northern Frisian: “Haiti”
  • Northern Luri: “هائیتی”
  • Northern Sami: “Haiti dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Haiti”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Haiti”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Haiti”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Haiti”
  • Norwegian: “Haiti”
  • Novial: “Haiti”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Haití”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Haitieg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Haitīeg”
  • Oriya: “ହାଇତି”
  • Oriya: “ହିଟି”
  • Oromo: “Heyitii”
  • Ossetian: “Гаити”
  • Pali: “हेटी”
  • Pampanga: “Aiti”
  • Pampanga: “Haiti”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੈਤੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Haiti”
  • Persian: “هائیتی”
  • Persian: “هاییتی”
  • Persian: “هیتی”
  • Picard: “Haïti”
  • Piemontese: “Haiti”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Haiti”
  • Polish: “Haiti”
  • Portuguese: “Haiti”
  • Portuguese: “República do Haiti”
  • Pushto: “هايتي”
  • Pushto: “هایتي”
  • Pushto: “هایټي”
  • Quechua: “Ayti”
  • Quechua: “Haití”
  • Quechua: “Hayti”
  • Romanian: “Haiti”
  • Romansh: “Haiti”
  • Rundi: “Hayiti”
  • Russia Buriat: “Гаити Улас”
  • Russia Buriat: “Һаити”
  • Russian: “Гаити”
  • Russian: “Республика Гаити”
  • Rusyn: “Гайти”
  • Sakizaya: “Haiti”
  • Samoan: “Haiti”
  • Samogitian: “Haėtis”
  • Sango: “Haitïi”
  • Sanskrit: “हेटी”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱟᱭᱛᱤ”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱟᱭᱴᱤ”
  • Sardinian: “Haiti”
  • Scots: “Haiti”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Haidhti”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Haiti”
  • Serbian: “Haiti”
  • Serbian: “Хаити”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Haiti”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းႁေးတီႇ”
  • Shona: “Haiti”
  • Sicilian: “Aiti”
  • Silesian: “Hajiti”
  • Sindhi: “هيٽي”
  • Sinhala: “හයිටි”
  • Sinhala: “හයිටිය”
  • Sinhala: “හෙයිටි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Haiti tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Haiti”
  • Slovak: “Haiti”
  • Slovak: “Haitská republika”
  • Slovenian: “HAI”
  • Slovenian: “Haiti”
  • Slovenian: “ht”
  • Slovenian: “HT”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Haiti”
  • Slovenian: “République d’Haïti”
  • Somali: “Haiti”
  • Somali: “Hayti”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هائیتی”
  • Spanish: “Haiti”
  • Spanish: “Haití”
  • Spanish: “ht”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Haiti”
  • Spanish: “República de Haití”
  • Sundanese: “Haiti”
  • Swahili: “Haiti”
  • Swati: “IHayithi”
  • Swedish: “Haiti”
  • Swiss German: “Haiti”
  • Tachelhit: “Hayiti”
  • Tagalog: “Haiti”
  • Tagalog: “Hayti”
  • Tahitian: “Haìti”
  • Tajik: “Гаити”
  • Tajik: “Гаитӣ”
  • Tajik: “Гоити”
  • Tajik: “Гоитӣ”
  • Tajik: “Ҳаити”
  • Tajik: “Ҳаитӣ”
  • Tajik: “Ҳоити”
  • Tajik: “Ҳоитӣ”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Гаити”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Гаитӣ”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Гоити”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Гоитӣ”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Ҳаити”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Ҳоити”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Ҳоитӣ”
  • Talysh: “Haiti”
  • Tamil: “எயிட்டி”
  • Tamil: “ஹைட்டி”
  • Taroko: “Haiti”
  • Tatar: “Haiti”
  • Tatar: “Гаити”
  • Telugu: “హైటి”
  • Telugu: “హైటీ”
  • Telugu: “హైతీ”
  • Tetum: “Haití”
  • Thai: “Ayiti”
  • Thai: “ht”
  • Thai: “HT”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเฮติ”
  • Thai: “เฮติ”
  • Thai: “ไฮติ”
  • Tibetan: “ཧའི་ཏི།”
  • Tibetan: “ཧེ་ཏི།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሀይቲ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Haiti”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Haiti”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “هايتي”
  • Turkish: “Haiti”
  • Turkmen: “Gaiti”
  • Udmurt: “Гаити Республика”
  • Uighur: “ھايتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Гаїті”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Haiti”
  • Urdu: “ہیٹی”
  • Uzbek: “Gaiti”
  • Venetian: “Haiti”
  • Veps: “Haiti”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Haiti”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Haiti”
  • Vietnamese: “Ha-i-ti (Haiti)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ha-i-ti”
  • Vietnamese: “Haiti”
  • Vlax Romani: “Haiti”
  • Volapük: “Haitiyän”
  • Võro: “Haiti”
  • Walloon: “Ayiti”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Haiti”
  • Welsh: “Haiti”
  • Western Balochi: “هایٹی”
  • Western Frisian: “Haïti”
  • Western Frisian: “Haïty”
  • Western Mari: “Гаити”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہیٹی”
  • Wolof: “Ayiti”
  • Wolof: “Ayti”
  • Wu Chinese: “海地”
  • Xhosa: “I-Haiti”
  • Yakut: “Гаити Өрөспүүбүлүкэтэ”
  • Yakut: “Хаити”
  • Yiddish: “האיטי”
  • Yiddish: “האַיטי”
  • Yoruba: “Haati”
  • Yoruba: “Hàítì”
  • Yue Chinese: “海地”
  • Zeeuws: “Haïti”
  • Zhuang: “Haiti”
  • Zulu: “i-Haiti”
  • “Ayitin”
  • “Ayitin Axkayotl”
  • “Haėtis”
  • “Haiti”
  • “HT”
  • “HTI”
  • “ma Awisi”
  • “हैती”

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