Map of Haiti

Haiti is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 19.0° N, 72.4° W. It shares land borders with 1 country — Dominican Republic — and also has its own coastline. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Haiti is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Haiti shares land frontiers with the following 1 country. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Haiti covers about 27,750 km² (10,714 sq mi). That makes it the 144th-largest country in the world by area and the 11th-largest in North America, larger by area than 12 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 11,867,032, the 81st-largest in the world and the 5th-largest in North America, accounting for about 2.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Haiti has an average population density of about 428 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 5th by population and 11th by area.

The seat of government is Port-au-Prince, and the official currency is the Haitian gourde (HTG, G), and the main official languages are French and Haitian Creole. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-05:00.

Haiti carries the ISO country codes HT and HTI, dials on the international calling code +509 and uses the .ht internet domain.

Haiti shares its land borders with 1 country, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Dominican Republic (capital Santo Domingo, about 10,771,504 people).

By area, Haiti is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 19.0° N, 72.4° W and opens at zoom level 7, framing Haiti within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Port-au-Prince. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Haiti lies about 2,109 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Haiti keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-05:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -05:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Haitian gourde (HTG, G).

The official languages are French and Haitian Creole, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +509 and websites commonly use the .ht internet domain.

In short, Haiti is a coastal country in North America, sharing land borders with 1 country. Its capital is Port-au-Prince. Haiti has a population of about 11,867,032 and covers around 27,750 km² (10,714 sq mi), ranking it 81st in the world by population and 144th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Haiti.

The flag of Haiti is composed of two equal horizontal bands of blue and red. A white square bearing the national coat of arms is superimposed at the center of the field.

The flag of Haiti is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.