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Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti is 27,750 km² (10,714 sq mi), the third largest country in the Caribbean, and has an estimated population of 11.4 million,0 making it the most populous Caribbean country. The capital is Port-au-Prince.

Haiti is a founding member of the United Nations, Organization of American States (OAS), Association of Caribbean States, and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. In addition to CARICOM, it is a member of the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. Historically poor and politically unstable, Haiti has the lowest Human Development Index in the Americas, as well as widespread slavery. (Full article...)

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A sketch of the action between Experiment and picaroons.
William Bainbridge Hoff, 1875

The action of 1 January 1800 was a naval battle of the Quasi-War that took place off the coast of present-day Haiti, near the island of Gonâve in the Bight of Léogâne. The battle was fought between an American convoy of four merchant vessels escorted by the United States naval schooner USS Experiment, and a squadron of armed barges manned by Haitians known as picaroons.

A French-aligned Haitian general, André Rigaud, had instructed his forces to attack all foreign shipping within their range of operations. Accordingly, once Experiment and her convoy of merchant ships neared Gonâve, the picaroons attacked them, capturing two of the American merchant ships before withdrawing. Experiment managed to save the other two ships in her convoy, and escorted them to a friendly port. On the American side, only the captain of the schooner Mary was killed. Though the picaroons took heavy losses during this engagement, they remained strong enough to continue wreaking havoc among American shipping in the region. Only after Rigaud was forced out of power by the forces of Toussaint L'Ouverture, leader of the 1791 Haitian Revolution, did the picaroon attacks cease. (Full article...)

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...that Restavec refers to a social system in Haiti whereby parents unable to care for their children send them to relatives or strangers, where they receive food and housing (and sometimes an education) in exchange for light housework.
...that in 2007, the Haitian national football team beat recent FIFA World cup finalists Trinidad and Tobago 2-1, to win the Caribbean Cup for the first time.
...that La Visite National Park is one of the two national parks in Haiti. It is located in the southeast of the country and contains the country's highest mountain, Pic de la Selle.

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Voters queue to cast their vote during the Haitian general election, 2006

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Image 1President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returns triumphantly to the National Palace at Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1994 (from History of Haiti)
Image 2Michel Domingue (from History of Haiti)
Image 3Bishop's House in Cap-Haitien, 1907 (from History of Haiti)
Image 4American Marines in 1915 defending the entrance gate in Cap-Haïten (from History of Haiti)
Image 5Jean-Pierre Boyer (from History of Haiti)
Image 6Leclerc's veterans storm Ravine-a-Couleuvre (Snake Gully) in 1802. (from History of Haiti)
Image 7Fabre Geffrard (from History of Haiti)
Image 8The battle of Santo Domingo (1806) painted by Nicholas Pocock in 1808 (from History of Haiti)
Image 9Market street in Port-au-Prince, 1996 (from History of Haiti)
Image 10Élie Lescot (from History of Haiti)
Image 112004 Haiti flood (from Environment of Haiti)
Image 12"Revenge taken by the Black Army for the Cruelties practiced on them by the French", by Marcus Rainsford, 1805 (from History of Haiti)
Image 13Battle for Santo Domingo, by January Suchodolski (1845) (from History of Haiti)
Image 14Sténio Vincent (from History of Haiti)
Image 15United States Marines and a Haitian guide patrolling the jungle in 1915 during the Battle of Fort Dipitie (from History of Haiti)
Image 16François Duvalier in 1968 (from History of Haiti)
Image 17Citadelle Laferrière, built by Henri Christophe, is the largest fortress in the Americas. (from History of Haiti)
Image 18Port-au-Prince and surroundings at the start of the 19th century (from History of Haiti)
Image 19Charles Rivière-Hérard (from History of Haiti)
Image 20Michel Martelly (from History of Haiti)
Image 21As the unofficial leader of the revolution, Toussaint L'Ouverture is considered the father of Haiti. (from History of Haiti)
Image 22Flamingo tongue on a purple sea fan from Arcadin Islands, Haiti. This sea snail is found living on various species of soft corals and sea fans. (from Environment of Haiti)
Image 23Marine's base at Cap-Haïtien (from History of Haiti)
Image 24Jean-Jacques Dessalines (from History of Haiti)
Image 25"Burning of the Plaine du Cap – Massacre of whites by the blacks". On 22 August 1791, slaves set fire to plantations, torched cities, and massacred the white population. (from History of Haiti)
Image 26Christopher Columbus landing on the island of Hispaniola in 1492. (from History of Haiti)
Image 27Large portions of the National Palace collapsed (from History of Haiti)
Image 28The Kingdom of Haiti in the North and the Republic of Haiti in the South (from History of Haiti)
Image 29Lysius Salomon (from History of Haiti)
Image 30René Préval (from History of Haiti)
Image 31Paul Magloire (from History of Haiti)
Image 32Engraving of Cap-Français in 1728 (from History of Haiti)
Image 33Jovenel Moïse (from History of Haiti)
Image 34The coronation of Faustin I of Haiti in 1849 (from History of Haiti)
Image 35The ruins of the Sans-Souci Palace, severely damaged in the 1842 earthquake and never rebuilt (from History of Haiti)
Image 36The French army led by Le Clerc lands in Cap Français (1802) (from History of Haiti)
Image 37Jean-Claude and Michèle Duvalier en route to the airport to flee the country, 7 February 1986 (from History of Haiti)
Image 38Haitian Folk Singer Manno Charlemagne (from Culture of Haiti)
Image 39A sugar mill in Haiti (L'Homme et la Terre by Élisée Reclus, 1830–1905) (from History of Haiti)
Image 40Opening of the mausoleum of Pétion and Dessalines in 1926 (from History of Haiti)
Image 41Kanaval in Jacmel Haiti 2014 03 (from Culture of Haiti)
Image 42"The Mode of exterminating the Black Army, as practiced by the French", by Marcus Rainsford, 1805 (from History of Haiti)
Image 43Swearing-in ceremony of Haitian Diaspora GwètòDe (Clergy in Vodou) (from Culture of Haiti)
Image 44U.S. Coast Guard intercepting Haitian refugees, 1998 (from History of Haiti)
Image 45Bread market in St. Michel, 1928–1929 (from History of Haiti)
Image 46U.S. Marines patrol the streets of Port-au-Prince on 9 March 2004 (from History of Haiti)
Image 47Fishing village in Haiti, 1996 (from History of Haiti)
Image 48Dumarsais Estimé (from History of Haiti)
Image 49Provisional President Boniface Alexandre (2004–2006) led the intervention of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti in 2004 (from History of Haiti)
Image 50Staff of the German legation and the Hamburg-Amerika Line agency at Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1900. The agency was involved in the staffing and management of the legation. German nationals were comparatively numerous in Haiti and heavily involved in the Haitian economy until World War I. (from History of Haiti)
Image 51The National Palace burned down during the revolt against Salnave in 1868 (from History of Haiti)
Image 52U.S. troops seizing Port-au-Prince airfield, September 1994 (from History of Haiti)

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Ouanaminthe Arrondissement	Capotille Mont-Organisé Ouanaminthe
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Bainet Arrondissement	Bainet Côtes-de-Fer
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