Gbarpolu County

Gbarpolu County
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Basic data
Country	Liberia
Capital	Bopolu
surface	9689 km²
Residents	83,388 (2008)
density	8.6 inhabitants per km²
founding	2001
ISO 3166-2	LR-GP

Coordinates: 7 ° 10 ′  N , 10 ° 25 ′  W

Gbarpolu County is an administrative region ( county ) in Liberia , it has a size of 9 689  km² and had 83,388 inhabitants at the last census (2008).

The administrative region is divided into six districts.
The capital is Bopolu in the district of the same name.

District	Ew. (2008) male	Ew. (2008) female	Ew. (2008) total
Belleh	7,951	7,306	15,257
Bokomu	4,386	5,171	9,557
Bopolu	9,580	8,139	17,719
Gbarma	8,781	7,070	15,851
Gounwolaila	5,608	5,904	11,512
Kongba	7,600	5,892	13,492
Gbarpolu	43.906	39,482	83,388

Gbarpolu is located in the north-west of the country and borders with the District of Kongba on Sierra Leone .

economy

Before the civil war in Liberia , the economy in Gbarpolu was based mainly on mining in addition to subsistence agriculture.

politics

In the first democratic Senate elections after the civil war, Daniel Flomo Naatehn was elected by the UP . In 2007 JSB Theodore Momo - also UP - was elected when a by-election was required .

Web links

• County Development Agenda (2008–2012) - current development priorities (PDF, 2.7 MB, English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ NPHC 2008 Report Final. (PDF; 676 kB) In: Liberian Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information-Systems (LISGIS). Retrieved October 11, 2010 . 
2. ^ Liberia, Counties and Districts. (PDF; 0.4 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Liberian Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information-Systems (LISGIS). Formerly in the original ; accessed on October 11, 2010 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ en: Wiki, article »Liberian general election, 2005« (the websites linked there for the election are no longer present).