Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Port-au-Prince
- Region
- Americas, Caribbean
- Population
- 11,906,095 (2025)
- Area
- 27,750 km²
- Currency
- Haitian gourde (HTG)
- Languages
- Haitian, French
- Calling code
- +509
- Internet domain
- .ht
- ISO codes
- HT, HTI, 332
- Time zone
- UTC-5:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- HT#### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Haiti covers about 27,750 square kilometres. By area it ranks 149th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Burundi and a little larger than Rwanda. It shares a land border with 1 neighbour: Dominican Republic. Its centre lies at about 19° north, 72° west, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 11.9 million people live in Haiti (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 83rd most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.14 percent of the world's people. On average there are 429 people to each square kilometre. About 56 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 65 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Haitian, French. A person from Haiti is called Haitian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Haitian gourde (code HTG, symbol G). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 32.1 billion (2025), which is about US$ 2,694 for each person (2025).
Time
Haiti uses one time zone, UTC-5:00 (America/Port-au-Prince). Clocks are moved for daylight saving time in part of the year.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Port-au-Prince | 1,234,742 |
| Carrefour | 511,345 |
| Delmas | 395,260 |
| Pétionville | 376,834 |
| Port-de-Paix | 306,217 |
| Saint-Marc | 266,642 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Caribbean
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.