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Nippes
Nip | |
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![]() Saut du Baril | |
![]() Nippes in Haiti | |
Country | ![]() |
Capital | Miragoâne |
Region | Tiburon Peninsula |
Symbols | Snowy egret and Yellow-crowned night heron |
Government | |
• Type | Departmental Council |
Area | |
• Department | 1,267.77 km2 (489.49 sq mi) |
Population (2015)[1] | |
• Department | 342,325 |
• Density | 270/km2 (700/sq mi) |
• Urban | 62,211 |
• Rural | 280,314 |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern) |
ISO 3166 code | HT-NI |
HDI (2017) | 0.482[2] low · 5th |
Nippes (French) or Nip (Haitian Creole) is one of the ten departments (the highest-level political subdivisions) of Haiti located in southern Haiti. It is the most recently created department, having been split from Grand'Anse in 2003.[3] The capital of the department is Miragoâne, and it is the least populous department in Haiti.