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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  • City with about 987,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 100 metres (320 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code PAP
  • Description: capital of Haiti
  • Also known as
    “PAP”
    “Ville de Port-au-Prince”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Haiti National Palace and Port-au-Prince Cathedral.
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Ruins
The National Palace was the official residence of the…
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Church
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, often…
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Library
The is Haiti's legal deposit…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cité Soleil and Bois Verna.
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Town
is an extremely impoverished and densely…
Suburb
is a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, .
Suburb
is a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, .

Port-au-Prince

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Latitude
18.5473° or 18° 32′ 50″ north
Longitude
-72.3396° or 72° 20′ 23″ west
UN/LOCODE
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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Catalan: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Cebuano: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Central Kurdish: “پۆرت ئۆ پرینس”
  • Chechen: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Chinese: “太子港”
  • Croatian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Czech: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Danish: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Dutch: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Dzongkha: “པོརཊ་ཨའུ་པྲིནསི། Port-au-prince”
  • Dzongkha: “པོརཊ་ཨའུ་པྲིནསི།”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورت او برنس”
  • Esperanto: “Portoprinco”
  • Estonian: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Finnish: “Port-au-Prince”
  • French: “Port-au-Prince”
  • French: “Port-Républicain”
  • Galician: “Porto Príncipe”
  • Georgian: “პორტ-ო-პრენსი”
  • German: “Port-au-Prince”
  • German: “Potoprens”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Interlingue: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Irish: “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”
  • Luxembourgish: “Port-au-Prince”
  • 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-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 Nynorsk: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port-Républicain”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Porto Prince”
  • 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.”
  • Persian: “پورت او پرنس”
  • Persian: “پورتو پرنس”
  • Piemontese: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Polish: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Portuguese: “Porto au Prince”
  • Portuguese: “Porto do Príncipe”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Príncipe”
  • Portuguese: “Porto-au-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: “Порт o Пренс”
  • Serbian: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • 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: “Potoprens”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Príncipe”
  • Swahili: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Swedish: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Swedish: “Potoprens”
  • Swiss German: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Tagalog: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Tagalog: “Puerto Principe”
  • Tajik: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Tamil: “போர்ட்-ஓ-பிரின்ஸ்”
  • Telugu: “పోర్ట్-ఓ-ప్రిన్స్”
  • Thai: “ปอร์โตแปรงซ์”
  • Thai: “พอร์ตโอพรินซ์”
  • Tibetan: “པོ་རོ་ཊི་ཨའུ་པི་རིན་སི།”
  • Turkish: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Turkmen: “Port o prens”
  • Tyap: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Tyap: “Potopi̱rin”
  • Udmurt: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Ukrainian: “Порт-о-Пренс”
  • Urdu: “پورٹ او پرنس”
  • 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: “太子港”
  • Zeeuws: “Port-au-Prince”
  • Zulu: “i-Port-au-Prince”

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