Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince (; ; Haitian Creole: Pòtoprens; ) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o the Caribbean kintra o Haiti.  The ceety's population wis 704,776 as o the 2003 census, an wis offeecially estimatit tae hae reached 897,859 in 2009.Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique , 2003 Census

The ceety o Port-au-Prince is on the Guwf o Gonâve: the bay on which the ceety lees, which acts as a natural harbor, haes sustained economic activity syne the ceevilizations o the Arawaks. It wis first incorporatit unner the colonial rule o the French, in 1749, an haes been Haiti's lairgest metropolis syne then. The ceety's layoot is similar tae that of an amphitheatre; commercial destricts are near the watter, while residential neebourheids are locatit on the hills abuin. Its population is difficult tae ascertain due tae the rapid growt o slums in the hillsides abuin the ceety; housomeivver, recent estimates place the metropolitan aurie's population at aroond 3.7 million, nearly hauf o the kintra's naitional population.www.urbanres.net/docs/ToR-cityWidePlanning-Haiti_final.pdf

Port-au-Prince wis catastrophically affectit bi an earthquake on 12 Januar 2010, wi lairge numbers o structures damagit or destroyed. Haiti's government haes estimatit the daith toll at 230,000 an says mair bodies remain uncoontit.

Sister ceeties
Port-au-Prince haes twa sister ceeties:
  Miami, Unitit States - 1991
  Montreal, Canadae - 1995http://www11.ville.montreal.qc.ca/sherlock2/servlet/template/sherlock%2CAfficherDocumentInternet.vm/nodocument/20146;jsessionid=24C10045060CDD0AA23BD919B260FD0F 

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Category:Caipitals in North Americae
Category:Caipitals in the Caribbean
Category:Populatit places in Haiti
Category:Populatit coastal places in Haiti
Category:Guwf o Gonâve
Category:Ouest Depairtment
Category:Port ceeties in the Caribbean
Category:1749 establishments
Category:Communes o Haiti