Haiti

Why it sticks

1. 1

   In 1804 Haiti became the first country founded by a successful slave revolt and the world's first Black-led republic.

2. 2

   The name comes from the Taíno word "Ayiti", meaning "land of high mountains".

3. 3

   The Citadelle Laferrière, built on a mountaintop after independence, is the largest fortress in the Americas.

4. 4

   It shares Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. From the air, the border is visible as a line between deforested Haitian hills and greener Dominican land.

• No official Street View: only user photospheres.
• French and Haitian Creole text, unlike the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic next door.
• Brightly painted "tap-tap" pickup trucks and buses used as shared taxis.
• Bare, eroded mountain slopes and crowded unpaved streets.