Claim: Haiti shares an island with a sovereign state.
Evidence: It occupies the western three-eighths of the island , which it shares with the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican Republic -LRB- República Dominicana -LSB- reˈpuβlika ðominiˈkana -RSB- -RRB- is a sovereign state occupying the eastern five-eighths of the island of Hispaniola , in the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region.