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Liberia
Liberia /laɪˈbɪəriə/ (help·info), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, and the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2008 Census, the nation is home to 3,476,608 people and covers 111,369 square kilometres (43,000 sq mi)...
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Monrovia
Monrovia is the capital city of the West African nation of Liberia. Located on the Atlantic Coast at Cape Mesurado, it lies within Montserrado County, the most populous county in Liberia. The metropolitan area, with a population of 1,010,970 in the...
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Montserrado County
Montserrado County is a county in the northwestern portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has four districts. Bensonville serves as the capital...
Lofa County
Lofa is a county in the northernmost portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has six districts. Voinjama serves as the capital with the area of the...
Grand Cape Mount County
Grand Cape Mount is a county in the northwestern portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has five districts. Robertsport serves as the capital with...
Maryland County
Maryland County is a county in the southeastern portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has two districts. Harper serves as the capital with the...
Mount Wuteve
Mount Wuteve is a mountain located in Liberia, whose summit is the highest point in Liberia. It is located in the Guinea Highlands range, whose parent range is the West Africa Mountains. Data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission reveals that...
Buchanan
Buchanan is the third largest city in Liberia, lying on Waterhouse Bay, part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is referred to as Gbezohn in the local Bassa language. As of the 2008 census, Buchanan has a population of 34,270. Of this, 16,984 were male and...
Robertsport
Robertsport, also known as Roberts Port and Robert's Port, is a town in western Liberia, about 10 miles from the Sierra Leone border. It is named after Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the first president of Liberia.
The town lies on Cape Mount peninsula,...
Greenville
Greenville, also known as Sinoe, is the capital of Sinoe County in southeastern Liberia and lies on a lagoon near the Sinoe River and the Atlantic Ocean. It is located about 150 miles southeast of Monrovia.
The town was built in about 1838 by...
Harper
Harper, situated on Cape Palmas, is the capital of Maryland County in Liberia. It is a coastal town situated between the Atlantic Ocean and the Hoffman River. Harper is Liberia's 11th largest town, with a population of 17,837.
The town is named...
Tubmanburg
Tubmanburg, also known as Bomi and formerly known as Vaitown, is the capital of Bomi County in Liberia. It lies in the Bomi Hills northwest of Monrovia and was an iron ore and diamond mining centre until is was largely destroyed in the Liberian...
Cape Palmas
Cape Palmas is a headland on the extreme southeast end of the coast of Liberia, West Africa, at the extreme southwest corner of the northern half of the continent. The Cape itself consists of a small, rocky peninsula connected to the mainland by a...
Gbarnga
Gbarnga is the capital city of Bong County, Liberia, lying north east of Monrovia. Bong County is one of the over 13 political subdivisions of Liberia known as counties. During the Liberian Civil War, it was the base for Charles Taylor's National...
Yekepa
Yekepa is a town in northern Liberia, lying near the Guinean border. It was the base for Lamco's iron ore mining operation until is was destroyed in the Liberian Civil War. Nearby Guesthouse Hill is one of the highest points in the nation....
Sanniquellie
Sanniquellie is a town in northern Liberia, the capital of Nimba County. It is known as the place where William Tubman, Sekou Touré and Kwame Nkrumah began the discussions which led to the formation of the Organisation of African Unity.
Sanniquellie...
Ganta
Ganta, also known as Gompa City, is a town in Nimba County of northern Liberia, lying just south of the Guinean border. It is the second largest city in Liberia, with a population of 41,106. Ganta is known for its unusual mosque.
Ganta Hospital...
Nimba County
Nimba is a county in the north-central portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has six districts. Sanniquellie serves as the capital with the area...
Paynesville
Paynesville (sometimes Paynesward) is a suburb east of Monrovia, located in Liberia. Near Paynesville there is an abandoned OMEGA transmission site, whose antenna tower is the highest structure of Africa. It is also known for the Redlight Market...
Voinjama
Voinjama is a small city that serves as the capital of Lofa County, Liberia and is located in the hilly, far northern part of the country near the Guinea border.
Before the Liberian civil war it was a busy crossroads town, with a large weekly market...
Zorzor
Zorzor is the second largest city in Lofa County, Liberia.
Gbarpolu County
Gbarpolu is a county in the northern portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has six districts. Bopulu serves as the capital with the area of the...
Mano River
The Mano River is a river in west Africa, it originates in the Guinea Highlands in Liberia and forms part of the Liberia – Sierra Leone border.
The districts through which the river flows include the Parrot's Beak area of Guinea, Liberia's Lofa...
Bomi County
Bomi is a county in the northwestern portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has four districts. Tubmanburg serves as the capital with the area of...
Bong County
Bong is a county in the north-central portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has twelve districts. Gbarnga serves as the capital with the area of...
Grand Bassa County
Grand Bassa is a county in the west-central portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has eight districts. Buchanan serves as the capital with the...
Grand Gedeh County
Grand Gedeh is a county in the eastern portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has three districts. Zwedru (formerly Tchien) serves as the capital...
Grand Kru County
Grand Kru is a county in the southeastern portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has eighteen districts. Created in 1984, Barclayville serves as...
Margibi County
Margibi is a county on the north to central coast of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has four districts. Kakata serves as the capital with the area of...
River Cess County
River Cess (sometimes spelled Rivercess) is a county in the south-central portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has six districts. Cesstos City...
Sinoe County
Sinoe is one of Liberia's 15 counties and it has 17 districts. Greenville is the county's capital.
As of the 2008 Census, it had a population of 104,932, making it one of the least populous counties in Liberia.
As it is also Liberia's third-largest...
River Gee County
River Gee is a county in the southern portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has six districts. Fish Town serves as the capital with the area of...
Harbel
Harbel is a town in Margibi County, Liberia. It lies along the Farmington River, about 15 miles upstream from the Atlantic Ocean. It was named for the founder of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Harvey S. Firestone, and his wife, Idabelle. Since...
Barclayville
Barclayville, the capital and most populous settlement in Grand Kru County is located in southeastern Liberia about 10 miles inland from Picinicess. The Barclayville township of several thousand people straddles the banks of the Na River. Roads from...
Zwedru
Zwedru is the capital of Grand Gedeh County, one of the 15 counties in the West African country of Liberia. Zwedru is located in Tchien District of Grand Gedeh County, near the Cavalla River in the country's southeastern region and near the border...
Bensonville
Bensonville is the capital city of Montserrado County, Liberia. The capital of Liberia, Monrovia, is also located in Montserrado County. Bensonville is located 20 miles from Monrovia. It is a commercial center for the surrounding agricultural area....
Pleebo
Pleebo (or Plibo) is a town located in Maryland County, Liberia.
Kakata
Kakata is the capital city of Liberia's Margibi County and is located in Kakata District.
River Cess
River Cess is the capital city of River Cess County, Liberia. It received its original name Cestos from Portuguese traders in the early 1500s from the baskets that were produced and sold in the town. Cestos in Portuguese and Spanish means basket.
Bopolu
Bopolu is the capital city of Gbarpolu County, Liberia, and is located 100 kilometers north of Monrovia. As of the 2008 census, Bopolu has a population of 2908. Of this, 1547 were male and 1361 female.
Bopolu was once the center of the Kondo...
Fish Town
Fishtown is the capital city of River Gee County, Liberia.
River Gee County is one of the five Southeastern counties. It was created by the act of legislation in 2000. Its citizens are Grebo. In 1933, during the administration of president Edwin J....
Roberts International Airport
Roberts International Airport (IATA: ROB, ICAO: GLRB) is an airport in the West African nation of Liberia. Located near the town of Harbel, the single runway airport is about 35 miles outside of the nation's capital of Monrovia, and as an origin and...
Lawa River
Lawa River is a river in West Africa, at 8°00′14″N 9°46′33″W / 8.0038889°N 9.7758333°W / 8.0038889; -9.7758333. It is about 100 km long and originates in southeastern Guinea near Macenta. Then it flows in southwestern direction to Liberia, where...
Cavalla River
The Cavalla River (also known as Cavally, Youbou or Diougou river) is a river in West Africa running from north of Mount Nimba in Guinea, through Côte d'Ivoire, to Zwedru in Liberia, and back to the border with Côte d'Ivoire. It ends in the Gulf of...
Saclepea
Saclepea is a village in central Nimba County, Liberia. A market town of 15,000 at the time of the Liberian Civil War in 2003, it is situated between the villages of Ganta and Tapita (also spelled Tapeta). It is located 285 km northeast of Monrovia...
Bandela
Bandelє (Bandela, Bandele, Bandeleh) is a village Garwula District, Grand Cape Mount, in north-west Liberia
As of January, 2006, the population was approximately 1,165. The area was settled by the Bande clan of the Mende people. Residents speak a...
Saint Paul River
The Saint Paul River is a river of western Africa. Its headwaters are in southeastern Guinea. Its upper portion in Guinea is known as the Diani River or Niandi River, and forms part of the boundary between Guinea and Liberia. The river then enters...
Bo Waterside
Bo Waterside is a town in Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia on the Mano River. It was a key border crossing between Liberia and Sierra Leone until 1990, when it closed after the launch of Charles G. Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia...
Buutuo
Buutuo is the capital of Zoegeh district in eastern Nimba County, Liberia. It is also known as the place where the 14 year long civil war of Liberia began in 1989. Once a growing city with over 25,000 people in the mid and late 1980s, the city has...
Spriggs Payne Airport
James Spriggs Payne Airport (IATA: MLW, ICAO: GLMR) is an airport located three miles from downtown Monrovia, the capital of the Republic of Liberia in West Africa. The airfield is located within the busy and thickly-settled Sinkor section of the...
Kolahun
Kolahun is a town in the Kolahun District of Lofa County, Liberia.
Genga, Liberia
Genga is a village in northern Liberia. It is in the Kolahun District of Lofa County.
To the west is the border with Sierra Leone, whilst the border with Guinea is to the north. Mount Wuteve is 40 km to the SE.
Genga lies in a valley at an altitude...
Sasstown
Sasstown is a town in the Sasstown District of Grand Kru County, Liberia.
It is served by Sasstown Airport.
Salala
Salala is a town in Bong County, Liberia. It is the site of a refugee camp for over 50,000 people who have fled the violence in Liberia ("The Humanitarian Situation in Liberia")
Totota
Totota is a small town in Bong County, Liberia with a meager population of 250. Known economic activities include goat rearing, cattle farming, and wind piping.
Sanoyea
Sanoyie is a town in Bong County, Liberia. Alternate spellings for the town are Sonoyea, Sanoghie and Sanoye.
In 1951, Pan Am Flight 151 crashed into a hill near Sanoyie. There were no survivors among the 40 on board.
Palala
Palala is a town in Bong County, Liberia.
Belefuanai
Belefuanai is a town in Bong County, Liberia.
Nearby towns and villages include Gawata (3.4 nm), Belifine (1.2 nm), Bunga (1.0 nm) , Gannyou (4.5 nm) and Bonia (2.1 nm).
Klay, Liberia
Klay is a town in Bomi County, Liberia.
Tienie
Tienie is a town in Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia.
Foya
Foya is a town in the Foya District of Lofa County, Liberia.
Foya is located 66 kilometers from Voinjama, it is home to the Kissi-speaking tribes of Liberia. Foya shares border with Sierra Leone and Guinea, it is the major trade link for the people...
