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Explore the territories of Haiti

Search a commune, an arrondissement or a department, and read its profile: essential services, available indicators, sources and reference years. Compare territories, spot service gaps and export the results for your reports, projects and decisions.

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Why does the number of communes vary from one source to another ?

Haiti does not have a single territorial reference set, but several vintages that coexist:

  • 2003 census (IHSI) — the last exhaustive demographic base.
  • CNIGS / OCHA COD-AB — the administrative division valid as at 29 November 2018, republished on 26 January 2026. This is the one this explorer uses for this edition, because it is the only one providing official join codes and geometries. Used does not mean in force today : communes have been created since.
  • Recent IHSI demographic estimates — they include communes created after 2018 and therefore show higher totals.

Exact wording: this version of the Explorer covers the 140 communes of the 2018 CNIGS reference set. More recent vintages recognise additional communes. A territory absent from 2018 is not a territory that does not exist — it is absent from that vintage.

For the Ouest department: the 2018 CNIGS reference set contains 20 communes. This number may differ in more recent reference sets. We obtained it by counting this file, not by taking it from a third party.

The vintage correspondence table (CSV, 192 entities) gives, for each territory, its Atmart identifier, its p-code, its vintage, its validity dates and a divergence note. Today it holds only the 2018 vintage: the others will be added when we have the official files, not before.

We do not pick a number in silence: the explorer counts what the reference set it loads actually contains, and names it. Communes created after 2018 will be added with their validity dates as soon as an official reference set publishes them with their codes, without rewriting history. How the territory reference set is built →

Which source covers which territory ?

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What this explorer does — and what it does not

It shows the information currently documented by Atmart Data — not everything that exists about a commune. Everything runs in your browser: four public files and one map outline, no application server, no account, no advertising tracker. An anonymous and aggregated audience measurement counts uses (a search happened) without ever knowing who or what — no cookie, no identifier, no IP address kept, and the text you type never leaves your browser: full method. What you see, you can download as is from the catalogue and recompute yourself.

The commune is the most detailed territorial level of the public edition. Communal sections, populated places and detailed polygons are available in the Haiti Geo Pack. Definitions, methods and quality statuses are set out on the Backbone page.