Grand Gedeh County
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Country | Liberia | |
Capital | Zwedru | |
surface | 10,484 km² | |
Residents | 125,258 (2008) | |
density | 12 inhabitants per km² | |
founding | 1964 | |
ISO 3166-2 | LR-GG |
Coordinates: 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 |
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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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ en: Wiki, article “Liberian general election, 2005” (the websites linked there for the election are no longer present).