Sunday, 4 January 2015

Haiti - The Wide Worlds Snaps

President: Michel Martelly (2011)
Prime Minister: Laurent Lamothe (2012)
Land area: 10,641 sq mi (27,560 sq km);

total area: 10,714 sq mi (27,750 sq km)
Population (2014 est.): 9,996,731 (growth rate: 1.08%);
birth rate: 22.83/1000;
infant mortality rate: 49.43/1000;
life expectancy: 63.18
Capital and largest city (2011 est.): Port-au-Prince, 2.207 million
Monetary unit: Gourde


Explored by Columbus on Dec. 6, 1492, Haiti's native Arawaks fell victim to Spanish rule. In 1697, Haiti became the French colony of Saint-Dominique, which became a leading sugarcane producer dependent on slaves. In 1791, an insurrection erupted among the slave population of 480,000, resulting in a declaration of independence by Pierre-Dominique Toussaint l'Ouverture in 1801. Napoléon Bonaparte suppressed the independence movement, but it eventually triumphed in 1804 under Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who gave the new nation the Arawak name Haiti . It was the world's first independent black republic.











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