Haiti
Haiti (officially Republic of Haiti) is a country in Caribbean, with its capital at Port-au-Prince, and is home to roughly 11.8M people.
Its official languages are French, Haitian Creole; the currency in circulation is Haitian gourde (G); people from here are called Haitian.
- »Haiti was the first country to be founded by a successful revolt of enslaved people, and the second republic in the Americas.
Haiti has exactly one neighbour: Dominican Republic to the east.
Port-au-Prince was severely damaged by the 2010 earthquake. It is named for a French ship, Le Prince, that anchored in the bay.
26,729 km² (10,320 sq mi), 143rd largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Equatorial Guinea.
Population 11,772,557, 83rd of 198 on file. That averages 440 per km² (1,141 per sq mi).
Created by tearing the white band out of the French tricolour and stitching the blue and red together, a literal act of separation from France in 1803.