Haiti Country Info - North America

Description and Basic Information

Haiti with its capital Port-au-Prince is located in North America (Caribbean, western one-third of the island of Hispaniola). It covers some 27,751 square kilometres (slightly smaller than Maryland) with 8,924,000 citizens. Haitian; Haitian Creole and French are the some of the languages spoken by the majority in Haiti. Dominican Republic is a bordering country.

Haiti is a Caribbean country that occupies the western one-third of the island of Hispaniola. The eastern two-thirds of Hispaniola is occupied by the Dominican Republic. Haiti is a country with a troubled past, and its future still remains uncertain. Decades of poverty, environmental degradation, violence, instability, dictatorship, and coups have left it the poorest nation in the western hemisphere.

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About Haiti

The terrain offers mostly rough and mountainous. The average density of population is about 321 per km². The climate in Haiti can be described as tropical with semiarid where mountains in east cut off trade winds. Possible natural disasters include lies in the middle of the hurricane belt and subject to severe storms from June to October or occasional flooding and earthquakes or periodic droughts.

To reach someone in Haiti dial +509 prior to a number. There are 108,300 installed telephones. And there are 3,648,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of none Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".ht". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 110V - 60Hz. The following list are the 10 regions/states in Haiti we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Haitian population grew at a rate of 1.84% (or by 169,337 citizens). With 77,214 deaths and 264,128 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 2.03%. -17,578 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Haiti: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.