Grand Bassa County

Grand Bassa County
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Basic data
Country	Liberia
Capital	Buchanan
surface	7936 km²
Residents	221,693 (2008)
density	28 inhabitants per km²
founding	1839
ISO 3166-2	LR-GB

Coordinates: 6 ° 15 ′  N , 9 ° 45 ′  W

Grand Bassa County is an administrative region ( county ) in Liberia , it has a size of 7 936  km² and had 221,693 inhabitants at the last census (2008).

The administrative region is divided into eight districts. The capital is Buchanan in the Neekreen District.

District	Ew. (2008) male	Ew. (2008) female	Ew. (2008) total
Commonwealth	17,334	17,559	34,893
District # 1	12,555	12,057	24,612
District # 2	12,724	12,998	25,722
District # 3	25,281	24,244	49,525
District # 4	15,315	15,139	30,454
Neekreen	15,902	16,661	32,563
Owensgove	6,774	7.140	13,914
St. John River City	5,028	4,982	10,010
Grand Bassa	110.913	110,780	221,693

Grand Bassa is on the Atlantic coast . The name Grand Bassa was derived from the Bassa ethnic group living here . Cape Brazier is on the coast .

politics

In the 2005 first Democratic Senate election after the Civil War, Gbehzohngar Milton Findley was elected as an independent candidate and Nathaniel Innis was elected by the LP .

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).