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Departments (States) and Capitol Seats in Haiti (Audio Pronunciation)

This is a little geography lesson and some very frequently mispronounced words. Listen below to hear the names of each department (similar to US states) and their capitol cities. Note: These are the Haitian Creole names, many maps only list the French names. You can find detailed information about them all on this Wikipedia page.

https://haitiancreole.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/departments-and-capitals.mp3

Depatman avek kapital ayiti

Department — Capitol City — Number on Map
Lwès — Pòtoprens — 8
Nò — Okap — 5
Latibonit — Gonayiv — 1
Sid — Kay — 10
Sant — Ench — 2
Grandans — Jeremi — 3
Nip — Miragwàn — 4
Nòdwès — Pòdepè — 7
Nòdès — Fòlibète — 6
Sidès — Jakmèl — 9

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Miss Estherline is the voice of Haitian Croele Net. She was born in Port-au-Prince and has lived in Haiti her whole life. She is fluent in Haitian Creole, French, and English. Even with a difficult childhood, she maintained a desire to help others - especially children. She is the mother of one daughter and they dream of someday visiting America.  Creole is her native language, but she is also fluent in French. You can also listen to her talking about her life. You can hear her beautiful voice on our original Creole Pronunciations.

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