Founded by freed American slaves in 1847, and its flag deliberately echoes the Stars and Stripes.
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Liberia
Republic of Liberia
Africa
ยท Western Africa
0Population
111.37Kkmยฒ of land
$622GDP / person
MonroviaCapital
- ISO codes
- LR ยท LBR
- Density
- 44 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- Liberian dollar (LRD)
- Dial code
- +231
- Internet domain
- .lr
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 6.4470ยฐ N, 9.4600ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Liberian
- UN region
- Western Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $3.07B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Liberia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
125th
of 242 ยท 0.06% of world population
Land area
105th
of 242 ยท 0.07% of world land
GDP per person
226th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
163rd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Liberia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 4,937,374 people, the 125th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,555 of everyone alive.
Covers 111,369 kmยฒ, making it the 105th largest country here - about 3.6 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 44 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Monrovia, at 6.31ยฐ N, 10.80ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 1,041,000.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Guinea, Cรดte d'Ivoire and Sierra Leone.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Monrovia.
The currency is the Liberian dollar (LRD, symbol $).
The official language is English.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Monrovia
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UTC+00:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Monrovia
Montserrado
6.3146ยฐ N, 10.7997ยฐ W
1.04M
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Liberia.