Coordinates: 6°30′N 9°30′W / 6.500°N 9.500°W
Republic o Liberie | |
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Motto: "The Love Of Liberty Brought Us Here" | |
Location o Liberie (dark blue) – in Africa (light blue & dark grey) | |
Caipital and largest city | Monrovia 6°19′N 10°48′W / 6.317°N 10.800°W |
Offeecial leids | Inglis |
Spoken an naitional leids[1] | |
Ethnic groups (2008[2]) | |
Releegion | Christianity (85.6%), Islam (12.2%), Ithers (2.2%)[2] |
Demonym(s) | Liberie |
Govrenment | Unitar presidential republic |
• Preses | Joseph Boakai |
Jeremiah Koung | |
Johnathan K. Koffa | |
Sie-A-Nyene Yuoh | |
Legislatur | Legislatur o Liberie |
Senate | |
Hoose o Representatives | |
Formation an Unthirldom | |
• Settlement bi the American Colonisation Society | Januar 7, 1822 |
Julie 26, 1847 | |
• Annexation o Republic o Maryland | Mairch 18, 1857 |
• Recogneetion bi the Unitit States | Februar 5, 1862 |
Januar 6, 1986 | |
Aurie | |
• Total | 111,369 km2 (43,000 sq mi) (102nt) |
• Water (%) | 13.514 |
Population | |
• 2015 estimate | 4,503,000[3] (125t) |
• 2008 census | 3,476,608 (130t) |
• Density | 40.43/km2 (104.7/sq mi) (180t) |
GDP (PPP) | 2018 estimate |
• Total | $4.123 billion[4] |
• Per capita | $897[4] |
GDP (nominal) | 2018 estimate |
• Tot | $2.335 billion[4] |
• Per capita | $475[4] |
Gini (2007) | 38.2[5] medium |
HDI (2015) | 0.427[6] law · 177t |
Currency | Liberie dollara (LRD) |
Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
Drivin side | richt |
Cawin code | +231 |
ISO 3166 code | LR |
Internet TLD | .lr |
Liberie (i/laɪˈbɪəriə/), offeecially the Republic o Liberie, is a kintra on the wast coast o Africae, bordered bi Sierra Leone, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, an the Atlantic Ocean. As o the 2008 Census, the naition is hame tae 3,476,608 fowk an covers 111,369 square kilometres (43,000 sq mi).
Liberie's caipital is Monrovia. Liberie haes a het equatorial climate wi maist rainfall arrivin in the rainy saison wi hersh harmattan winds in the dry saison. Liberie's populated Pepper Coast is componed o maistly mangrove forests while the spairsely populatit inland is forestit, later openin tae a plateau o drier grasslands.