Central Haiti
Ouest
Port-au-Prince Arrondissement

Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince 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.
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  • Type: City with 1,280,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Haiti
  • Also known as: “PAP”, “Port au Prince”, and “Ville de Port-au-Prince”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Haiti National Palace and Port-au-Prince Cathedral.

Ruins
Photo: mweriksson, CC BY 2.0.
The National Palace was the official residence of the president of Haiti, located in the capital Port-au-Prince, facing Place L'Ouverture near the Champs de Mars.

Church
Photo: Rabanus Flavus, Public domain.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, often called , was a cathedral in Port-au-Prince, . 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, Port-au-Prince and is the principal library of the city. The current head of the library is Dangelo Neard.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cité Soleil and Bel Air.

Town
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is an extremely impoverished and densely populated commune located in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area in . 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.

Suburb
is a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, . 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 Port-au-Prince, . It has one of the largest concentration of the historic Haitian gingerbread style houses present.

Port-au-Prince

Latitude
18.5473° or 18° 32′ 50″ north
Longitude
-72.3396° or 72° 20′ 23″ west
Population
1,280,000
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
IATA airport code
PAP
United Nations Location Code
HT PAP
Open location code
77C9GMW6+W5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 289141966
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3718426
Wiki­data ID
Q34261
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Port-au-Prince” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Afrikaans: “Pòtoprens”
  • Albanian: “Port o Princ”
  • Albanian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Albanian: “Port-o-Princ”
  • Amharic: “ፖርቶፕሪንስ”
  • Arabic: “بورت أو برانس”
  • Arabic: “بورت أو برنس”
  • Arabic: “بورتو برنس”
  • Aragonese: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Armenian: “Պորտ օ Պրենս”
  • Armenian: “Պորտ-օ-Պրենս”
  • Asturian: “Puertu Príncipe”
  • Aymara: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Azerbaijani: “Port-o-Prens”
  • Azerbaijani: “Port-o-Prins”
  • Balinese: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Basque: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Belarusian: “Порт-о-Прэнс”
  • Bengali: “পর্তোপ্রাঁস”
  • Bengali: “পোর্ট অব প্রিন্স”
  • Bengali: “পোর্ট-অ-প্রিন্স”
  • Bengali: “পোর্ট-আউ-প্রিন্স”
  • Bosnian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Breton: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Bulgarian: “Порт о Пренс”
  • Bulgarian: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Catalan: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Cebuano: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Chechen: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Chinese: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Chinese: “太子港”
  • Croatian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Czech: “Port au Prince”
  • Czech: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Danish: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Dutch: “Port au Prince”
  • Dutch: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورت او برنس”
  • Esperanto: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Esperanto: “Portoprinco”
  • Estonian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Finnish: “Port-au-Prince”
  • French: “Port au Prince”
  • French: “Port-au-prince”
  • French: “Port-au-Prince”
  • French: “Port-Républicain”
  • Galician: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Galician: “Porto Príncipe”
  • Georgian: “პორტ-ო-პრენსი”
  • German: “Port au Prince”
  • German: “Port-au-Prince”
  • German: “Potoprens”
  • German: “Pòtoprens”
  • Greek: “Πορ-ω-Πρενς”
  • Greek: “Πορτ-ο-Πρενς”
  • Greek: “Πορτ-ω-Πρενς”
  • Guarani: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Gujarati: “પોર્ટ-ઓ-પ્રિન્સ”
  • Haitian: “Pòtoprens”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Hausa: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Hebrew: “פורט או פרינס”
  • Hebrew: “פורט או פרנס”
  • Hebrew: “פורט או-פרנס”
  • Hebrew: “פורט-או-פרינס”
  • Hebrew: “פורט-או-פרנס”
  • Hindi: “पोर्ट-अउ-प्रिंस”
  • Hindi: “पोर्ट-ऑ-प्रिंस”
  • Hindi: “पोर्ट-औ-प्रिन्स”
  • Hungarian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Icelandic: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Ido: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Inari Sami: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Indonesian: “Port au Prince”
  • Indonesian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Interlingue: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Irish: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Italian: “Port au Prince”
  • Italian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Italian: “Porto Principe”
  • Japanese: “ポートプランス”
  • Japanese: “ポールトプランス”
  • Japanese: “ポルトーフランス”
  • Japanese: “ポルトープランス”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟ್ ಔ ಪ್ರಿನ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Порт-о-Пренс қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Kirghiz: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Korean: “뽀르또쁘랭스”
  • Korean: “포르토프랭스”
  • Korean: “포토프렌스”
  • Kotava: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Latin: “Portus Principi”
  • Latin: “Portus Principis”
  • Latvian: “Portofprensa”
  • Latvian: “Portoprensa”
  • Latvian: “Portoprensas”
  • Ligurian: “Pòrto do Prinçipe”
  • Limburgan: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Lingala: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Lithuanian: “Port o Prensas”
  • Livvi: “Port-o-Prens”
  • Lombard: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Lombard: “Pòtoprens”
  • Luxembourgish: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Macedonian: “Порт о Пренс”
  • Macedonian: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Malagasy: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Malay: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Malayalam: “പോർട്ട്-ഔ-പ്രിൻസ്”
  • Maltese: “Port au Prince”
  • Marathi: “पोर्ट ओ प्रिन्स”
  • Marathi: “पोर्ट औ प्रिन्स”
  • Marathi: “पोर्ट-औ-प्रिन्स”
  • Marathi: “पोर्ट-औ-प्रिंस”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Thài-chú-káng”
  • Minangkabau: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Mingrelian: “პორტ-ო-პრენსი”
  • Mongolian: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Mongolian: “Порт-о-Принс”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پور ؤ پرانس”
  • Northern Frisian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Northern Luri: “پورتوپرنس”
  • Northern Sami: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Port Au Prince”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port au Prince”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port Republicain”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port Républicain”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port-Republicain”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port-Républicain”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Portau Prince”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Porto Prince”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pòtoprens”
  • Norwegian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Novial: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Port-au-Prince”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Frumaport”
  • Ossetian: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੋਰਤ-ਓ-ਪ੍ਰੈਂਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Port au Prince.”
  • Papiamento: “Port au Prince”
  • Persian: “پورت او پرنس”
  • Persian: “پورتو پرنس”
  • Persian: “پورتوپرنس”
  • Piemontese: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Polish: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Portuguese: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Portuguese: “Porto au Prince”
  • Portuguese: “Porto do Príncipe”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Principe”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Príncipe”
  • Portuguese: “Porto-au-Príncipe”
  • Portuguese: “Porto-do-Príncipe”
  • Pushto: “پورتو پرنس”
  • Quechua: “Port au Prince”
  • Romanian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Russian: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Russian: “Столица Гаити”
  • Sakizaya: “tay-ce- a munatu”
  • Sardinian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Scots: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Serbian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Serbian: “Порт o Пренс”
  • Serbian: “Порт о Пренс”
  • Serbian: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Serbian: “Портопренс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Port o Prens”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Shona: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Sicilian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Silesian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Sindhi: “پورٽ او پرنس”
  • Sinhala: “පෝර්ට්‌ - ඕ - ප්‍රින්ස්‌”
  • Sinhala: “පෝර්ට්‌-ඕ-ප්‍රින්ස්‌, හයිටිය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Slovak: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Slovenian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پورتو پرنس”
  • Spanish: “Port au Prince”
  • Spanish: “Port au-Prince”
  • Spanish: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Spanish: “Potoprens”
  • Spanish: “Pòtoprens”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Principe”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Príncipe”
  • Swahili: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Swedish: “Port au prince”
  • Swedish: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Swedish: “Potoprens”
  • Swedish: “Pòtoprens”
  • Swiss German: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Tagalog: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Tagalog: “Puerto Principe”
  • Tajik: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Tamil: “போர்ட்-ஓ-பிரின்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “போர்ட்-ஓ-ப்ரின்ஸ்”
  • Telugu: “పోర్ట్-ఓ-ప్రిన్స్”
  • Thai: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Thai: “ปอร์โตแปรงซ์”
  • Thai: “พอร์ตโอพรินซ์”
  • Tibetan: “པོ་རོ་ཊི་ཨའུ་པི་རིན་སི་”
  • Tibetan: “པོ་རོ་ཊི་ཨའུ་པི་རིན་སི།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Turkish: “Port au Prince”
  • Turkish: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Turkmen: “Port o prens”
  • Udmurt: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Ukrainian: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Urdu: “پورٹ او پرنس”
  • Uzbek: “Port-o-prens”
  • Uzbek: “Port-o-Prens”
  • Venetian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Veps: “Port-o-Prens”
  • Vietnamese: “Pooctô Pranhxơ”
  • Vietnamese: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Volapük: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Port-au-Prince”
  • Welsh: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Western Frisian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Wu Chinese: “太子港”
  • Yakut: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Yoruba: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Yue Chinese: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Yue Chinese: “太子港”
  • Zulu: “i-Port-au-Prince”
  • “Port-au-Prince”

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