Departments of Haiti

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In the administrative divisions of Haiti, the department (French: département d'Haïti, pronounced [depaʁtəmɑ̃ d‿aiti]; Haitian Creole: depatman Ayiti) is the first of four levels of government. Haiti is divided administratively into ten departments, which are further subdivided into 42 arrondissements, 149 communes, and 574 communal sections as of 2021. The Haitian government separately divides communes into villes, quartiers, and sections rurales to count urban and rural populations. Generally, each commune has one ville which serves as the administrative center and corresponds to the largest urban communal section. Quartiers are also counted as urban, but they are less populated and usually located in a different communal section. In 2014, there was a proposal by the Chamber of Deputies to increase the number of departments from 10 to 14 —perhaps as high as 16.

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