Port-au-Prince Arrondissement

Port-au-Prince Arrondissement
Pòtoprens Awondisman
Map of the arrondissement (red) within the Ouest department.
Map of the arrondissement (red) within the Ouest department.
Map
Country Haiti
DepartmentOuest
Area
 • Arrondissement735.78 km2 (284.09 sq mi)
 • Urban
161.72 km2 (62.44 sq mi)
 • Rural
574.06 km2 (221.65 sq mi)
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • Arrondissement2,759,991
 • Density3,800/km2 (9,700/sq mi)
 • Urban
2,663,925
 • Rural
96,066
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern)
Postal code
HT61—
Communes8
Communal Sections34
IHSI Code011

Port-au-Prince (Haitian Creole: Pòtoprens) is an arrondissement in the Ouest department of Haiti. It had 2,109,516 inhabitants at the 2003 Census which was estimated to have risen to 2,759,991 in 2015 in an area of 735.78 sq km (284.09 sq mi).[2][1] Postal codes in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement start with the number 61.

  1. ^ a b c "Population totale, population de 18 ans et plus ménages et densités estimés en 2015" [Total Population, Population of 18 and over, Households and Densities Estimated in 2015] (PDF). IHSI (in French). March 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  2. ^ Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique (IHSI), 7 August 2003.