Haiti: A Country Profile
ByLibrary of CongressFederal Research Division
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Capital: Port-au-Prince.
Major Cities: Port-au-Prince (917,112 inhabitants), Carrefour (306,074), Delmas (257,247), and
Cap-Haïtien (107,026) are Haiti’s only cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants.
Independence: January 1, 1804, from France. Haiti was the first modern state governed by
people of African descent and the second nation in the Western Hemisphere to achieve
independence.
Public Holidays: Haiti celebrates the following public holidays: Independence Day (January 1),
Ancestors’ Day (January 2), Carnival Monday (variable date in February or March), Mardi Gras
(variable date in February or March), Ash Wednesday (variable date in February or March),
Good Friday (variable date in March or April, Friday before Easter), Easter (variable date in
March or April), Flag Day (May 18), Ascension Day (variable date in May or June), Corpus
Christi Day (variable date in May or June), Assumption Day (August 15), Dessalines Day
(October 17), All Saints’ Day (November 1), All Souls’ Day (November 2)
Details
- Publication Date
- Jan 5, 2015
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781312807877
- Category
- Reference
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Library of Congress, By (author): Federal Research Division
Specifications
- Pages
- 32
- Binding
- Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- US Letter (8.5 x 11 in / 216 x 279 mm)