Facts on Haiti

• Population is estimated at 9 million.
• Haiti's land mass is comparable to the size of Maryland's.
• Haiti is the 2nd oldest democracy in the Western Hemisphere and that region's poorest nation.
• The success of Haiti's slave revolt against the French allowed the United States to acquire 14 states west of the Mississippi River through the Louisiana Purchase.

The earthquake on January 12, 2010 was the nation's most destructive natural disaster in 200 years

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