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	CHILD ALERT - Haiti
		The nation of Haiti comprises one third of the island of Hispaniola and borders the Dominican Republic.
		Part of the West Indies archipelago, Haiti means "land of mountains" and five mountain ranges span the country, creating a jagged shoreline of natural harbours and offshore islands.
		Located between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, Haiti's tropical climate is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes and seasonal storms.
	www.unicef.org /childalert/haiti/geography.php (123 words)

	Information on Haiti, Haiti History, Geography, Climate
		Haiti has been plagued by political violence for most of its history since then, and is now one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere.
		Haiti is bounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by the Dominican Republic, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the Windward Passage, a channel that separates the country from Cuba.
		Haiti is mountainous in most parts, with five mountain ranges crossing the country.
	www.mapsofworld.com /country-profile/haiti.html (546 words)

	Haiti Overview \| Haiti Tour Guide \| iExplore.com
		During the rest of the 19th century, Haiti was under the control of a succession of dictators, none of whom had the wherewithal to resolve the conflict between the country’s two main ethnic groups: the mulattos, who held political power, and the fls.
		Haiti is situated in the Caribbean and comprises the forested mountainous western end of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic.
		Haiti’s coastline is dotted with magnificent beaches, between which stretches lush subtropical vegetation, even covering the slopes which lead down to the shore.
	www.iexplore.com /dmap/Haiti/Overview (450 words)

	Haiti - GEOGRAPHY
		Haiti is a country of only about 28,000 square kilometers, about the size of the state of Maryland.
		The mainland of Haiti has three regions: the northern region, which includes the northern peninsula; the central region; and the southern region, which includes the southern peninsula.
		Temperatures are almost always high in the lowland areas, ranging from 15° C to 25° C in the winter and from 25° C to 35° C during the summer.
	countrystudies.us /haiti/19.htm (984 words)

	Haiti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Haiti is a country situated on the third of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea east of Cuba.
		Haiti has since become the poorest country the Western Hemisphere and has been plagued political violence and corrupt dictators for most of its history.
		Haiti is a presidential republic with an elected president and National However some claim it to be an authoritarian government in practice.
	www.freeglossary.com /Haiti (1184 words)

	Haiti (06/06)
		Haiti is the world's oldest fl republic and the second-oldest republic in the Western Hemisphere, after the United States.
		Although Haiti actively assisted the independence movements of many Latin American countries, the independent nation of former slaves was excluded from the hemisphere's first regional meeting of independent nations, in Panama in 1826, and did not receive U.S. diplomatic recognition until 1862.
		Haiti is one of the original members of the United Nations and several of its specialized and related agencies, as well as a member of the Organization of American States (OAS).
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/1982.htm (5828 words)

	Geography of present-day nations and states - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Geography of The Bahamas - Commonwealth of The Bahamas
		Geography of the Republic of the Congo - Republic of the Congo
		Geography of Trinidad and Tobago - Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_geography_topics (1260 words)

	Haiti information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, occupies one third of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola and also includes the smaller islands of La Gonâve, La Tortue (Tortuga), Les Cayemites, Île à Vache, La Grande Caye, and Navasse.
		Haiti is a presidential republic with an elected president and National Assembly.
		In 1925, Haiti was a lush tropical paradise, with 60% of its original forest covering the lands and mountainous regions.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Haiti (2960 words)

	country
		Haiti is a complex mix of a number of factors that make up the whole of the country.
		Haiti is still using the 1987 constitution that gives executive power to the president being directly elected for a five-year term and assisted by a 19 member cabinet subject to legislative approval.
		Haiti was in a state of anarchy, poverty was increasing, and there was no one with the support or ability to rule and govern fairly for many years.
	my.oh.voyager.net /~kbarton/country.htm (2255 words)

	Geography of Haiti
		Haiti is located in the Caribbean Sea and contains spectacular mountains and a beautiful, undeveloped coastline.
		Haiti occupies the western third of the island.
		Haiti is located in the middle of the hurricane belt and from June to October the nation often experiences severe storms.
	www.earthyfamily.com /H-geog.htm (179 words)

	Haiti
		Haiti has been plagued by political violence and corrupt dictators for most of its history.
		Over three decades of dictatorship followed by military rule ended in 1990 when Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president.
		The country has experienced little job creation since President Préval[?] took office in February 1996, although the informal economy is growing.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ha/Haiti.html (171 words)

	Haiti Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
		Haiti (HAI-tee), French Haïti (ah-ee-TEE), independent republic (10,700 sq mi/27,713 sq km; 1990 population 5,820,000; 2004 estimated population 7,656,166), West Indies, on the W one-third of the island of Hispaniola, on the Atlantic Ocean (N) and the Caribbean Sea (S); (cap.) Port-au-prince;
		Since the mid–19th century, however, Haiti has been dominated by the mulatto minority, which clings to French cultural traditions; the official languages of Haiti are Haitian Creole and French, although the vast majority of the people speak the former.
		Haiti is the most densely populated country in Latin America and has the lowest per capita income with 80% of the population living in abject poverty.
	www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Haiti.html (1043 words)

	Haiti: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
		Haiti, in the West Indies, occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic.
		Haiti's government, however, remained ineffectual and its economy was in ruins.
		Haiti: Economy - Economy Agriculture is the principal economic activity in Haiti.
	www.factmonster.com /ipa/A0107612.html (1004 words)

	Haiti - Republic of Haiti - Dayti, Haïti
		Haiti - Republic of Haiti - Dayti, Haïti
		Haiti is the western part of the island Hispaniola, which was an important strategic location in the 17th century used by the Spaniards and France.
		Today Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, the country has been plagued by political violence for most of its history.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/haiti.htm (747 words)

	Struggles For Freedom: Introduction -
		Haiti and the United States: two countries that emerged from European colonialism to become the first independent nations in the modern Western Hemisphere.
		Geography: Sometimes, even in the most highly regarded publications of today, Haiti is identified as an island.
		Haiti occupies roughly the western one-third of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic.
	www.haiti-usa.org /historical (545 words)

	haiti map and information page
		Since then, Haiti has been ruled by a seemingly-endless line of dictators; who imposed absolute obedience to their authority.
		At the beginning of the 21st century, Haiti did struggle to establish the legitimacy of its government and to improve the economic and social conditions of its people.
		Landforms Haiti, occupying the western third of the island of Hispaniola, consists of two peninsulas, separated by the Gonave Gulf.
	worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/namerica/caribb/ht.htm (445 words)

	Welcome to Haiti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Haiti as it used to be doesn’t exist anymore: talking the evening away under an old mango tree, going down to Jacmel in the fields to visit plantations left by grandma, spending a lazy afternoon slapping dominoes on the board, taking a girl out dancing under a tonnelle, swinging to the guitar and tcha-tcha music.
		This is the real Haiti in its uniqueness, its charm; it’s the Haiti that I never knew, the Haiti my parents knew, the Haiti their grand parents told them about, the Haiti shaped by generations of memories, experience and history.
		Every schoolboy studied in geography that Haiti is situated in the Caribbean Sea, between the 19 N and 72 W, flanked by Cuba and Puerto-Rico, occupies a third of the whole island (shared with the Dominican Republic).
	www.andrews.edu /~christel/haiti.htm (319 words)

	The Geography of Haiti
		Haiti is the most mountainous country of the Caribbean, however it does have three plains which were once quite fertile.
		Neither Haiti nor the D.R. (Dominican Republic) is an island.
		Haiti has ONE city, Port-au-Prince which must be about 1 1/2 million of the roughly 7 to 8 million people in Haiti.
	www.webster.edu /~corbetre/haiti/history/course/unittwo/geography.htm (2401 words)

	Geography
		Geography All The Way: This website is designed and maintained by Rich Allaway, teacher in charge of Geography at the International School of Toulouse (IST), France.
		Geography in Action: This website has sections on sand dune ecosystems, the urban structure of Belfast, the ethnic geography of Belfast and landscapes of Northern Ireland (including peat bogs and deciduous woodland).
		Geography in the News: This brand new site from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) provides free learning resources, for teachers and students, focusing on the geography in and behind the news.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVgeography.htm (8737 words)

	Haiti - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		It is bound by the Dominican Republic to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and the Caribbean Sea to the south.
		CLIMATE: Haiti has a tropical climate, although the country is generally semiarid due to the fact that the moist trade winds are cut off by the mountains in the middle of the island.
		On June 23, 1993 the UN initiated a worldwide ban on oil and arms shipments to Haiti, that resulted in talks beginning on June 27 in New York and accords being signed between the military and Aristide on July 3, 1993.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/haiti.htm (1361 words)

	HaitiXchange - Haiti's Hidden Treasures
		Whether or not you are familiar with Haiti, "Haiti's Hidden Treasures", a video documentary, will show you Haiti in her full splendor as you have never seen her before.
		This is Haiti?" If you're from Haiti, or visit often, this video will be a refreshing view of the Haiti you know exists but never get to see on television or share with your friends.
		Like many other Haitians, his appreciation for his homeland did not start until after he moved to the U.S. Haiti's Hidden Treasures is clean, professionally done, and is definitely up to par with the types of tourist videos and documentaries you see about islands such as Jamaica or the Bahamas.
	www.haitixchange.com /hx/article.asp?article_id=116 (449 words)

	Haiti: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		The response of the African American press to the United States occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934.
		Gender and politics in contemporary Haiti: the Duvalierist state, transnationalism, and the emergence of a new feminism (1980-1990)....
		In Haiti, hungry lives & early deaths: governments rise and fall, but do little to help the nation's impoverished people and devastated......
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107612.html (992 words)

	CARE - Virtual Field Trip - Haiti - Journal Entries
		While Haiti's upper classes enjoy a standard of life enviable anywhere, its poor suffer the highest malnutrition and mortality rates in the Western Hemisphere.
		In attempts to distill its essence, I have often heard Haiti described as "the West Africa of the Caribbean" or "the French outpost of the Americas." In fact, Haiti is neither African nor French -- nor, by accident of geography, Latin American.
		What follows is an account of my journey to Haiti, where I spent time getting to know this impoverished country, the struggling people who call it home and some of the relief and development programs that CARE is implementing in Haiti's northwest, the poorest corner of the poorest country of the Western Hemisphere.
	www.careusa.org /vft/haiti/introduction.asp (264 words)

	Haiti Geography
		Haiti is located in Caribbean, western one-third of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Dominican Republic.
		The terrain of Haiti is mostly rough and mountainous.
		Haiti is tropical; semiarid where mountains in east cut off trade winds
	www.nationbynation.com /Haiti/Geo.html (47 words)

	Visual Geography Series®: Haiti
		Haiti’s Geography (Travelblog) Find fast facts about the geography of Haiti and a map of the country.
		Haiti Government (Nationmaster.com) Find concise facts and figures relating to the government and leaders of Haiti.
		Africans in Haiti, Jamaica, and Brazil (RetaNet) grades 6 to 12 This lesson plan presents students with an understanding of how slavery brought Africans to the countries of Haiti, Jamaica, and Brazil.
	www.vgsbooks.com /countries/vgs_haiti.htm (501 words)

	GeographyIQ - World Atlas - North America - Map of Haiti
		In the early 17th century, the French established a presence on Hispaniola, and in 1697, Spain ceded to the French the western third of the island, which later became Haiti.
		After a prolonged struggle, Haiti became the first fl republic to declare its independence in 1804.
		Continued violence and technical delays prompted repeated postponements, but Haiti finally did inaugurate a democratically elected president and parliament in May of 2006.
	www.geographyiq.com /countries/ha/Haiti_map_flag_geography.htm (387 words)

	Geography Of Haiti
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	www.appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/haiti_country_geography.shtml (301 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A Political Geography of Latin America: Books: Jonathon R. Barton
		A Political Geography of Latin America exposes these differences between places, regions and countries, individuals and societies, offering an invaluable insight into the themes of political and economic development, and an accessible guide to understanding power and space relations.
		From the Antarctic to the tropical jungles, the coastal communities to the highland villages, the mega-cities to isolated rural existence, the political geographies of lives, localities, cities and rurality are too sophisticated to be subjected to generalizations.
		Barton stresses the need for inclusionary political geography across hemispheres, nation-states, regions, races and ethnic groups, gender and sexuality, and for recognition that it is citizens who wield the power and shape the nation-states that shape them.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415121906/scifind1-21 (682 words)

	Reviews of 'AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame'
		Although they could see the effects of the illness, people in this region were obsessed with the cause of the illness, and felt the need to understand AIDS through a constructed narrative of blame.
		Farmer outlines the long history of Haiti as a gay tourist attraction, and Duvalier's encouragement of tourism as a boost to the domestic economy.
		Haiti was the only American society to successfully result from the direct action of a revolution against slavery and colonialism.
	www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/reviews/0520248392.html (781 words)

	AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		Physician and anthropologist Farmer studied the impact of AIDS on the impoverished people of Haiti, and his portrayal for his doctoral dissertation, of a small rural village--its clinic, religious life, folk healers, and voodoo beliefs--brings Haitian culture powerfully to life.
		"This study traces the introduction of AIDS in Haiti to, most probably, U.S. gays who had sex with Haitian men during visits to the country, but notes the persistent misunderstandings about the syndrome's Haitian incidence." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
		carefully postulates a trajectory of AIDS in the United States, Haiti, and the Caribbean, revealing the intimate economic and political links that allowed for the syndrome to appear simultaneously in the countries of the Western hemisphere.
	www.halloween.com /halloween-books/free.php?in=us&asin=0520248392 (779 words)

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