Grand Kru County

Grand Kru County
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Basic data
Country	Liberia
Capital	Barclayville
surface	3895 km²
Residents	57,913 (2008)
density	15 inhabitants per km²
founding	1984
ISO 3166-2	LR-GK

Coordinates: 4 ° 55 ′  N , 8 ° 15 ′  W

Grand Kru County is an administrative region ( county ) in Liberia , it has a size of 3 895  km² and had 57,913 inhabitants at the last census (2008).

The administrative region is divided into 18 districts. The capital is Barclayville in the district of the same name.

District	Ew. (2008) male	Ew. (2008) female	Ew. (2008) total
Barclayville	5,778	5,795	11,573
Bleebo	873	837	1,710
Bolloh	1,052	865	1.917
Buah	344	299	643
Dorbor	1,197	1,167	2,364
Dweh	473	455	928
Felo-Jekwi	981	1,030	2.011
Fenetoe	872	824	1,696
Forpoh	816	729	1,545
Garraway	4,968	4,557	9,525
Gee	1,254	1,289	2,543
Grand Cess Wedabo	5,523	5,286	10,809
Grand Kru	29,648	28,265	57,913
Kpi	848	749	1,597
Lower Jloh	669	616	1,285
Nrokwia	1.010	866	1,876
Trenbo	1,860	1,771	3,631
Upper Jloh	773	800	1,573
Wlogba	357	330	687

Grand Kru is located in southern Liberia on the Atlantic coast . The region was 1984/1985 from the Sass Town Territory and the former to Maryland belonging Kru Coast Territory formed. The region is sparsely populated and the road network is barely developed. The most important languages ​​are Grebo and Kru .

The most important branch of the economy is subsistence agriculture, which is often practiced in the form of slash and burn . Are grown Upland -Rice, cassava, palm nuts, tropical fruit, in wetter areas of sugar cane and various banana varieties and as cash crops of coffee, cocoa and kola nuts. Fishing is carried out on the coast.

politics

In the 2005 first Democratic Senate elections after the Civil War, Cletus Segbe Wotorson was elected by the COTOL and Blamoh Nelson by the APD .

One of the first aid and infrastructure projects of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf administration was the George W. Bush Bridge in Barclayville in 2006 .

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).
4. ^ NN: George Bush Bridge Dedicated in Barclayville. The Perspective, May 3, 2006, accessed January 19, 2011 .