Haiti

Capital: Port-au-Prince.

Major Cities: Port-au-Prince (917,112 inhabitants), Carrefour (306,074), Delmas (257,247), and

Cap-Haïtien (107,026) are Haiti's only cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants.

Independence: January 1, 1804, from France. Haiti was the first modern state governed by

people of African descent and the second nation in the Western Hemisphere to achieve

independence.

Public Holidays: Haiti celebrates the following public holidays: Independence Day (January 1),

Ancestors' Day (January 2), Carnival Monday (variable date in February or March), Mardi Gras

(variable date in February or March), Ash Wednesday (variable date in February or March),

Good Friday (variable date in March or April, Friday before Easter), Easter (variable date in

March or April), Flag Day (May 18), Ascension Day (variable date in May or June), Corpus

Christi Day (variable date in May or June), Assumption Day (August 15), Dessalines Day

(October 17), All Saints' Day (November 1), All Souls' Day (November 2)