7/ Eastward to Hispaniola, the most populous island...

7/ Eastward to Hispaniola, the most populous island in the Greater Antilles. It is composed of two nations: Haiti 🇭🇹 and the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

The island was under 🇪🇸 Spanish control from its ‘discovery’ in the 1490s. In the 17th century, French pirates took over the western part, becoming the 🇫🇷 French colony of Saint-Domingue.

Harsh slavery conditions led to the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s. In 1804, Haiti 🇭🇹 gained independence, the first to be liberated by former slaves.

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OpenCage 👉🌍

8/ Haiti 🇭🇹 has a place in OpenStreetMap history: the 2010 earthquake was a major impetus for the creation of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

https://www.hotosm.org/projects/haiti_

#geoweirdness #OpenStreetMap

21 June at 16:59 | Open on en.osm.town

OpenCage 👉🌍

9/ Sadly conditions in Haiti 🇭🇹 are still very difficul, and it is the poorest country in the western hemisphere.

Here's an aerial image of the border with the much wealthier Dominican Republic 🇩🇴, you can see the significant deforestation on the Hatian side.

In February 2023, construction was started on a border wall on the Dominican side to stop migrants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic%E2%80%93Haiti_border

#geoweirdness

21 June at 17:02 | Open on en.osm.town

OpenCage 👉🌍

10/ Haiti 🇭🇹 has an open territorial dispute - with the United States 🇺🇸 over tiny, uninhabited Navassa Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navassa_Island

The island is administered by the US Fish and Wildlife service as a National Wildlife Refuge. It is the only one of the "United States Minor Outlying Islands" not in the Pacific

#geoweirdness

21 June at 17:07 | Open on en.osm.town