Country Chooser Country InformationHaiti Standards
Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:110V
Frequency:60 Hz
Plug types:A & B,
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Caribbean, western one-third of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Dominican Republic
Area:
total: 27,750 sq km
land: 27,560 sq km
water: 190 sq km
Climate:
tropical; semiarid where mountains in east cut off trade winds
Terrain:
mostly rough and mountainous
Economy
GDP: $14.15 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 2% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $1,700 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 15.7% (2005 est.)
Currency: gourde (HTG)
Exchange rates:
gourdes per US dollar - 40.449 (2005), 38.352 (2004), 42.367 (2003), 29.251 (2002), 24.429 (2001)
People
Population:
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: 2.3% (2006 est.)
Religions:
note: roughly half of the population practices Voodoo
Languages:
French (official), Creole (official)
Government
Capital:
name: Port-au-Prince
time difference: UTC-5 (same time as Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins first Sunday in April; ends last Sunday in October
Independence:
1 January 1804 (from France)
Note: Information on Haiti was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Haiti, please visit one of the links below.
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