Capital: Port-au-Prince.Major Cities: Port-au-Prince (917,112 inhabitants), Carrefour (306,074), Delmas (257,247), andCap-Haïtien (107,026) are Haiti's only cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants.Independence: January 1, 1804, from France. Haiti was the first modern state governed bypeople of African descent and the second nation in the Western Hemisphere to achieveindependence.Public Holidays: Haiti celebrates the following public holidays: Independence Day (January 1),Ancestors' Day (January 2), Carnival Monday (variable date in February or March), Mardi Gras(variable date in February or March), Ash Wednesday (variable date in February or March),Good Friday (variable date in March or April, Friday before Easter), Easter (variable date inMarch or April), Flag Day (May 18), Ascension Day (variable date in May or June), CorpusChristi Day (variable date in May or June), Assumption Day (August 15), Dessalines Day(October 17), All Saints' Day (November 1), All Souls' Day (November 2)