Haiti country guide — Worldly
Editorial review: 25 October 2026
Routes: /atlas/haiti and /facts/ht

READING AND REVIEW REFERENCES
Geography and historical orientation:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Haiti
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1784-1800/haitian-rev
Constitution: official languages, institutions and administrative divisions:
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Haiti_2012?lang=en
Culture, landscape and heritage:
https://www.unesco.org/en/creative-cities/jacmel
https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/joumou-soup-01853
https://www.unesco.org/en/mab/la-hotte
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/180/
Economy and households:
https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/haiti/overview
Literature:
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2009/edwidge-danticat
Current travel advice (conditions and access change):
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/haiti

MAP PROVENANCE
National outline: Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m Admin 0 Countries.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson
Public domain: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/
The retained source is scripts/haiti-outline-source.geojson.
Twelve curated settlement centres are retained in scripts/haiti-map-places.json.
Run node scripts/build-haiti-map.mjs to rebuild assets, pack and place names offline.
The map is a learning aid, not a boundary survey or travel route. Natural Earth
represents national land including major offshore islands, not department borders.
Most city centres were checked against English Wikipedia summary coordinates;
Port-de-Paix and Miragoâne use approximate published town-centre coordinates.
Coastline generalisation puts Cap-Haïtien, Port-de-Paix and Jérémie respectively
about 1.09, 0.83 and 0.93 km outside the outline. Their correct locations are
retained; tests allow a 1.1 km coastline margin only for those three centres.
Sights identify monuments or explicitly representative city/island locations.
They are not entrances or assurances of current access. Navassa is omitted.

PHOTOGRAPHS
The banner and ten topic images reuse local Haitian Creole photographs. Each
image keeps its author, licence, source URL and descriptive alt text in
src/lib/american-speak-heroes.json; all are served from /images/speak/haitian-creole/.
These landscape photographs illustrate the country, not necessarily the topic's
specific food, language or person. They are not evidence of current conditions.

Jacmel: User:Doron, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JacmelView.jpg
Citadelle Laferrière: Rémi Kaupp, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Citadelle_Laferri%C3%A8re.jpg
Sans-Souci: Rémi Kaupp, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sans-Souci_Palace_front.jpg
Bassin Bleu: Intellect'Art, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bassin_bleu_(Jacmel).jpg
Cap-Haïtien: Lionel Baur, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2012_Cap-Haitien_maison_coloniale.JPG
Labadee: SpaceEconomist192, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Labadee,_Haiti_I.jpg
Port-au-Prince: James G. Pinsky / US Navy, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Port-au-Prince_Haiti_2008.JPG
Jacmel carnival: HOPE Art, CC BY 2.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kanaval_in_Jacmel_Haiti_2014_03.jpg
Saut-Mathurine: Lenouvelliste, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saut-Mathurine_6894.jpg
Kenscoff: Alex Carroll, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vers_Kenscoff_-_panoramio.jpg
Licences:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/