Haiti

Facts

What the numbers say about Haiti

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 631× the size of Haiti.
• Haiti ranks 84th of 237 by population but only 146th of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 408 people per km², Haiti is the 14th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Haiti lies at 19°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Haiti's main territory stretches about 229 km north to south and 300 km east to west.
• Our measured 26,900 km² is 3.1% below Wikidata's official figure of 27,800 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

How Haiti measures up

Haiti holds 0.1% of the land area and 1.8% of the people of the 27 countries listed for North America. In Caribbean it is the 3rd largest of 16.

Where Haiti sits

• Haiti's centre lies at 18.9°N, 72.7°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 2,110 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 18°N to 20°N, about 230 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Haiti had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Haiti would have 33.7 million people. It has 11.0 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Haiti would have 100,000 people. It has 11.0 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 1.9 million.

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