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Haiti is the western third of the island of Hispaniola, and its ten departments are the first tier of the country, the level at which the state runs its prefectures, its schools and its roads. A photo taken there is as likely to show a steep terraced hillside, a mountain road or a crowded coastal town as anything else, and which department you are in tells you most of what it will look like.
The ten departments of Haiti, the way the map is drawn today. Nippes is the youngest: it was split from Grand'Anse in 2003. Six are named for where they sit on the compass, Nord, Nord-Est, Nord-Ouest, Ouest, Sud and Sud-Est, and the others for a river or a district: Artibonite for the longest river in the country, Centre for the middle of it, Grand'Anse for the bay at the south-west tip, and Nippes for the small peninsula beside it.
Haiti has no tier between the departments and the country, so the quiz groups them into the three parts of the country that Haitians themselves talk about. The north is the three departments on that coast, the centre and the west is the band from the Artibonite valley to Port-au-Prince, and the south is the long peninsula that points at Jamaica. The groups are a way to drill the map a piece at a time rather than an administrative tier. The departments are the Haiti Arrondissements grouped, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Ouest is the department of Port-au-Prince. It is shaped by the Gulf of Gonâve, and takes in the island of La Gonâve out in the gulf.
Nippes is the small department on the neck of the southern peninsula, split off from Grand'Anse in 2003. It is one of the easiest to lose between its neighbours.
Artibonite is the largest department, and fills the coast north of the gulf and the valley of the river it is named for.
Ten, since Nippes was created in 2003. Below them are 42 arrondissements.
Ouest. The quiz groups it with Artibonite and Centre, as the centre and the west of the country.
The tier below this one is Haiti Arrondissements. For another country at this level, see Guatemala Departments.
