Grand Gedeh County

Grand Gedeh County
Symbols
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Basic data
Country	Liberia
Capital	Zwedru
surface	10,484 km²
Residents	125,258 (2008)
density	12 inhabitants per km²
founding	1964
ISO 3166-2	LR-GG

5.9166666666667 -8.0833333333333Coordinates: 5 ° 55 ' N , 8 ° 5' W

Grand Gedeh County (alternative spellings Grand Gedah , Grand Jide ) is an administrative region ( county ) in Liberia , it has a size of 10,484 km² and had 125,258 inhabitants at the last census (2008).

The administrative region is divided into eight districts. The capital is Zwedru in the Tchien District.

District	Ew. (2008) male	Ew. (2008) female	Ew. (2008) total
B'hai	5,024	5,343	10,367
Cavala	7,300	6,859	14,159
Gbao	6,197	6.127	12,324
Gboe-Ploe	3,267	3,004	6,271
Glio-Twarbo	4,778	4,252	9,030
Konobo	13,365	11,340	24,705
Putu	9,044	7,382	16,426
Thien	16,019	15,957	31,976
Grand Gedeh	64.994	60.264	125,258

The region is located in eastern Liberia and borders the Republic of Ivory Coast . It was not until 2000 that the River Gee region was split off from Grand Gedeh. The Krahn are an important ethnic group in Grand Gedeh .

flag

The flag of Grand Gedeh shows the sun rising behind a green mountain against a background of two stripes. Of these, the white stripe stands for purity of heart and the blue one for peace and prosperity.

politics

In the 2005 first Democratic Senate election after the Civil War, Isaac Wehyee Nyenabo was elected by the NDPL and William Cheyety Sandy by the COTOL .

Individual evidence

^ NPHC 2008 Report Final. (PDF; 676 kB) In: Liberian Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information-Systems (LISGIS). Retrieved October 11, 2010 .
^ 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lisgis.org
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[Census2008Enderg-1] NPHC 2008 Report Final. (PDF; 676 kB) In: Liberian Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information-Systems (LISGIS). Retrieved October 11, 2010 .

[Admin-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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lisgis.org

[3] Flags of the World ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[4] : Wiki, article “Liberian general election, 2005” (the websites linked there for the election are no longer present).