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Cap-Haitien, 
Haiti
331,899 people lived in Cap-Haitien in 2025. It is the 1731st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Haiti.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Cap-Haitien grew
Where Cap-Haitien had 10 people in 1975, it had 31 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 431,119 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Cap-Haitien through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cap-Haitien in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Haiti · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 21 cities in Haiti in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Port-au-Prince. The ringed dot in colour is Cap-Haitien; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Cap-Haitien covered 42 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.6 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 3.1 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Haiti
Its share of Haiti
Of every 100 people in Haiti in 2025, 3 lived in Cap-Haitien, which is 331,899 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Haiti, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Cap-Haitien's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1727 Hui'an China332,559
- 1728 Stoke-on-Trent United Kingdom332,542
- 1729 Yokkaichi Japan332,173
- 1730 Chandausi India331,969
- 1731 Cap-Haitien331,899
- 1732 Liaoyuan China331,469
- 1733 Nuevo Laredo Mexico331,195
- 1734 Gravataí Brazil330,969
- 1735 Murcia Spain330,966
In Haiti, 2025
- 270 Port-au-Prince1,868,268
- 1559 Gonaïves367,158
- 1731 Cap-Haitien331,899
- 1761 Port-de-Paix326,041
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Cap-Haitien are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Cap-Haitien publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries