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Port-au-Prince ( / ˌpɔːrt oʊ ˈprɪns / PORT oh PRINSS; French: [pɔʁ o pʁɛ̃s] ⓘ; Haitian Creole: Pòtoprens, [pɔtopɣɛ̃s]) 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. [2]
- National Palace
A 2010 map of Port-au-Prince, showing the location of the...
- Bel Air
Bel Air (Haitian Creole: Bèlè, English: Good Air) is a...
- Toussaint Louverture International Airport
Toussaint Louverture International Airport (Haitian Creole:...
- Populated Places Established in 1749
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- National Palace
5 days ago · Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Port-au-Prince, capital, chief port, and commercial centre of the West Indian republic of Haiti. It is situated on a magnificent bay at the apex of the Gulf of Gonâve (Gonaïves), which is protected from the open sea by the island of La Gonâve. The city was laid out in a grid pattern in 1749 by the French and called L ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 19, 2018 · The following is a list of the ten most important things to know about Port au Prince: 1) Most recently, much of Haiti's capital city was destroyed in a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake which hit near Port au Prince on January 12, 2010. The death toll in the earthquake was in the thousands and most of Port au Prince's central historic ...
- Amanda Briney
Port-au-Prince ( Pòtoprens in Kreyòl) is the capital city of Haiti. Haiti is also divided into ten Départements; Port-au-Prince is the capital of the Ouest Département. [1] Port-au-Prince is Haiti's largest city. According to the country's 2015 census, over 2.6 million people lived there.
Haiti national football team training in Port-au-Prince, 2004. Football (soccer) is the most popular sport in Haiti with hundreds of small clubs competing at the local level. Basketball and baseball are growing in popularity. Stade Sylvio Cator is the multi-purpose stadium in Port-au-Prince, currently used mostly for association football matches.
t. e. The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 M w earthquake that struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. [8] [9] The epicenter was near the town of Léogâne, Ouest department, approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. By 24 January, at least 52 aftershocks ...
Port-au-Prince Airport is served the following major airlines: 18.5772 -72.2851 2 Sunrise Airways is in operation since 2010 as the national airline based in Port-au-Prince. They offer domestic & international flights from Port-au-Prince to Camagüey, Cap-Haïtien , Fort-de-France, Havana , Holguín, Jérémie, Les Cayes, Panama City–Tocumen ...
