port-au-prince in English

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the capital of Haiti, a port on the western coast of Hispaniola; population 1,998,000 (est. 2007). Founded by the French in 1749, it became capital of the new republic in 1806. The city was devastated in January 2010 by an earthquake that claimed more than 200,000 lives.

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1. Domaine des Acajous, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

2. Haiti Compatriote.com, Port-au-Prince, Haïti

3. Haiti Compatriote.com, Port-au-Prince, Haïti

4. I have never been to Port Au Prince.

5. Eglise Baptise de Christ-roi EBAC, Port-au-Prince

6. A cloud of cement dust rose from the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.

7. Port-au-Prince is one of the nation's largest centers of economy and finance.

8. The epicenter of the quake was just outside the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.

9. Thousands of corpses are strewn along the streets of Port au - Prince and environs.

10. Carrefour: [geographical name] residential city west of Port-au-Prince in southern Haiti population 430,000.

11. Port-au-Prince has food-processing plants as well as soap, textile and cement factories.

12. The incumbent will oversee the administrative units located in both Santo Domingo and Port-au-Prince.

13. The twice-weekly flight 883 had originated in Port-au-Prince in Haiti and stopped over in Santiago .

14. This will include a vessel designed to clear debris blocking the main port in the capital , Port-au-Prince .

15. Over 92 percent of Port-au-Prince residents are estimated to have lost one or more loved ones in the disaster.

16. Mars' first novel, Kasalé is a portrait of a rural Haitian community set in Rivière-Froide, not far from Port-au-Prince.

17. In Port-au-Prince in Haiti a rehabilitation clinic for the handicapped was opened in honor of Brochero, dubbed "Kay Gabriel" (Gabriel's House).

18. The streets of Port-au-Prince are alive with passenger vehicles called camionettes, or tap-taps, that are elaborately painted in imaginative designs.

19. In the streets and alleyways of Cité Soleil in Port-au-Prince, people no longer live in fear of the once-notorious gangs.

20. 10 Surgeons from Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) work in a cargo container at a makeshift hospital in Port-au-Prince on January 20

21. The map of Port au- Prince at the end of 2009 was not all it could be, not as good as the map of California.

22. In the slums and in the earthquake survivor camps of Port-au-Prince, people live in crowded insanitary conditions where the disease can spread quickly.

23. Gonâve Island (French: Île de la Gonâve, pronounced ; also La Gonâve) is an island of Haiti located west-northwest of Port-au-Prince in the Gulf of Gonâve.

24. Pierre was born in Port-au-Prince where she was raised until the age of 14 when she emigrated to the United States to be re-united with her parents.

25. 29 An alleged looter lies on a staircase, dead, after being shot by a security guard in a home appliance store on January 2010 in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

26. The abolition of the practice of preventive detention of criminal deportees at the Port-au-Prince national penitentiary is too recent to infer that there is no risk of arbitrary detention.

27. 2 days ago · La misère Abjecte lance « 750 000 boat-people » à l’aventure et fournit « 500 000 parias à Port-au-Prince »

28. Amid the devastation and loss of life in Haiti , there have been a precious few moments of joy - U.S. rescue workers pulled a security guard out of the rubble of the collapsed U.N. building in Port-au-Prince .

29. It was established by the then-President, former Lieutenant General and Supreme Commander of the Presidential Guards under President Riché, Faustin Soulouque, who, inspired by Napoleon I, declared himself Emperor Faustin I of Haiti on August 26, 1849 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Port-au-Prince.

30. While training with the North Atlantic chapter under the Assassin Mentor Achilles Davenport (Roger Aaron Brown), he encounters the Assassin Adéwalé (Tristan D. Lalla), who brings news that the Haitian city of Port-au-Prince has been devastated by an earthquake during the search for a Precursor temple containing a Piece of Eden.