Port-au-Prince (pôrt  -pr ns , prt-, pôrt-pr  s) The capital and largest city of Haiti, in the southwest part of the country on an arm of the Caribbean Sea. Founded by French sugar planters in 1749, it became the colonial capital in 1770 and the capital of independent Haiti in 1804. Population: 703,000. |
Port-au-Prince [ˈpɔːtəʊˈprɪns (French) pɔrtoprɛ̃s]
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(Placename) the capital and chief port of Haiti, in the south on the Gulf of Gonaïves: founded in 1749 by the French; university (1944). Pop.: 917 112 (1997 est.)
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| Noun | 1. |  Port-au-Prince - the capital and largest city of HaitiHaiti, Republic of Haiti - a republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola; achieved independence from France in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the western hemisphere |
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