Coordinates: 19°00′N 72°25′W / 19.000°N 72.417°W /
19.000; -72.417Haiti (/ˈheɪti/ (listen); French: Haïti [a.iti];
Haitian Creole: Ayiti [ajiti]), officially the Republic of Haiti
(French: République d'Haïti; Haitian Creole: Repiblik d Ayiti) and
formerly known as Hayti,[note 1] is a country located on the island of
Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea,
to the east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas and the Turks
and Caicos Islands. It occupies the western three-eighths of the
island which it shares with the Dominican Republic. To its south-west
lies the small island of Navassa Island, which is claimed by Haiti but
is disputed as a United States territory under federal administration.
Haiti is 27,750 square kilometers (10,714 sq mi) in size, the third
largest country in the Caribbean by area, and has an estimated
population of 11.4 million, making it the most populous country in the
Caribbean.The island was originally inhabited by the indigenous TaÃno
people, who migrated from South America. The first Europeans arrived
on 5 December 1492 during the first voyage of Christopher Columbus,
who initially believed he had found India or China. Columbus
subsequently founded the first European settlement in the Americas, La
Navidad, on what is now the northeastern coast of Haiti. The island
was claimed by Spain and named La Española, forming part of the
Spanish Empire until the early 17th century. However, competing claims
and settlements by the French led to the western portion of the island
being ceded to France in 1697, which was subsequently named
Saint-Domingue. French colonists established lucrative sugarcane
plantations, worked by vast numbers of slaves brought from Africa,
which made the colony one of the richest in the world.
19.000; -72.417Haiti (/ˈheɪti/ (listen); French: Haïti [a.iti];
Haitian Creole: Ayiti [ajiti]), officially the Republic of Haiti
(French: République d'Haïti; Haitian Creole: Repiblik d Ayiti) and
formerly known as Hayti,[note 1] is a country located on the island of
Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea,
to the east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas and the Turks
and Caicos Islands. It occupies the western three-eighths of the
island which it shares with the Dominican Republic. To its south-west
lies the small island of Navassa Island, which is claimed by Haiti but
is disputed as a United States territory under federal administration.
Haiti is 27,750 square kilometers (10,714 sq mi) in size, the third
largest country in the Caribbean by area, and has an estimated
population of 11.4 million, making it the most populous country in the
Caribbean.The island was originally inhabited by the indigenous TaÃno
people, who migrated from South America. The first Europeans arrived
on 5 December 1492 during the first voyage of Christopher Columbus,
who initially believed he had found India or China. Columbus
subsequently founded the first European settlement in the Americas, La
Navidad, on what is now the northeastern coast of Haiti. The island
was claimed by Spain and named La Española, forming part of the
Spanish Empire until the early 17th century. However, competing claims
and settlements by the French led to the western portion of the island
being ceded to France in 1697, which was subsequently named
Saint-Domingue. French colonists established lucrative sugarcane
plantations, worked by vast numbers of slaves brought from Africa,
which made the colony one of the richest in the world.
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