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Port-au-Prince
18.54° N, 72.34° W
- Population
- 1,998,000
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 1 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
- 1749
- 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
- 98 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Area
- 36 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
- Port-au-Prince Arrondissement
- 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 Port-au-Prince, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Port-au-Prince have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Overview
Name
The name means "the port of the prince" and probably came from a ship called The Prince that anchored in the bay in the early 18th century.
Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person
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