Go to New Location
(can be address, country name, or [lat,long])
Some features may only work in Internet Explorer 6.0 or better
Haiti Terrain
:
mostly rough and mountainous.
Resources
:
bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, marble, hydropower.
Natural Hazards
:
lies in the middle of the hurricane belt and subject to severe storms from June to October; occasional flooding and earthquakes; periodic droughts.
Population
:
8,706,497 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2007 est.).
