Local time
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Cap-Haitien
Cap-Haïtien · local name
19.76° N, 72.21° W
- Population
- 281,487
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 2 of 9
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 9 cities of Haiti in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Haiti, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1670
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Elevation
- 0 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Area
- 54 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Nord
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Time zone
- America/Port-au-Prince

Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Cap-Haitien, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Cap-Haitien have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
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Sister cities
- Fort Lauderdale
- New Orleans
- and 2 more