Place in News: Haiti

Haiti, with a population of 11 million, is considered the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere
Haiti is located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, to the east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas
Currency: Haitian gourde
The Caribbean nation became the world’s first Black-led republic when it declared its independence from France on New Year’s Day 1804.
Saint-Domingue, once France’s richest colony, known as the “Pearl of the Antilles,” became Haiti.