Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince (Kreyòl): Pòtoprens
Port-au-Prince from space
Coat of arms
Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince in Haiti
Coordinates: 18°32′21″N 72°20′06″W / 18.53917°N 72.33500°W / 18.53917; -72.33500
Country	Haiti
Département	Ouest
Arrondisement	Port-au-Prince
Founded	1749
Colonial seat	1770
Elevation	98 m (322 ft)
Population  (2007)
• City	1,082,800
• Metro	1,728,100
• Demonym	Port-au-Princien (female Port-au-Princienne)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (Eastern)

Port-au-Prince (Pòtoprens in Kreyòl) is the capital city of Haiti. Haiti is also divided into ten Départements; Port-au-Prince is the capital of the Ouest Département.^[1]

Port-au-Prince is Haiti's largest city. According to the country's 2015 census, over 2.6 million people lived there.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d’Informatique (March 2015). Population Totale, de 18 Ans et Plus: Ménages et Densités Estimés en 2015 (Report) (in French). Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances (MEF), République d’Haïti. pp. 16, 23.