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Haiti:
General situation:
Haiti is Etat located to make State west left island of Haiti (or island of Hispaniola) which it shares with the Dominican Republic (party is). It is the second biggest island of the Greater Antilles after Cuba.
Haiti is therefore restricted in the East by the Dominican Republic, but edged here and there by Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. The country occupies thirty six for one hundred surfaces of the island, that is 27 750 km ² in its western party. They also note that Haiti is formed of two peninsulas separated by the gulf of Gonâve.
In the gulf of Gonâve is the island of Gonâve, the biggest of islands located off the coasts of Haiti.
Haiti is divided into nine departments aimed by a delegate named by the government: the Centre, the North, the Northeast, the northwest, Artibonite, the West, the South, the Southeast and the Big - Handle. The capital, Port-au-Prince, is the most important city of the country, with 1,1 million inhabitants from a distance; it is located in the bottom of the gulf of Gonâve. Other agglomerations, smaller, are Cape - Haitian in the north, Cayes in the south and Gonaïves in the northwest. Lîle of Haiti count two States therefore: in the East, the Dominican Republic, on the West, the Republic of Haiti. Moreover, in courtyard of their history, both States formed only an only one in three resumptions.
Haiti and made Dominican Republic have together European cofact and numerous American occupations, political regimes corrupted in repetition, Catholic religion blended with the vaudou, afro-European crossed derivation, serious problems of public health, a sub-schooling and a weak agrarian productiveness. However, difficulties of Haiti are considerably more well brought up than in Dominican Republic, because Haiti remains the poorest country of America.
The population of Haiti was estimated at 7,1 million inhabitants in 2001. About 74 % of the population saw in country zone. The almost entirety of the Haitian, that is 95 %, black slaves go down, the rest of the population being constituted by Mulattos (existent of direction ciphered Africans and Frenchman). Today, they think that almost 400 000 persons (about 5 %) speak French, in varying degrees; it is about a small elite first of rich men who live in the suburbs located on the height of entered Entrance go out of costly French restaurants, but also a small more sent to school medium class.
As for the Creole, it is in practice all population of Haiti that speaks it as mother tongue.
Haiti is really splendid and her am really worth trouble to make trip to go to visit it and to see how saw réelement the population. Insecurity is present is the persons with a little of silver have to be wary not to make take away against a ransom.