Greenville (Liberia)

Greenville
Greenville
Coordinates	5 ° 1 ′  N , 9 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 5 ° 1 ′  N , 9 ° 2 ′  W
Basic data
Country	Liberia
region	Sinoe
height	5 m
Residents	16,434 (2008)
founding	1838
Map of Greenville, at the mouth of the Sinoe River (around 1890)

Greenville  - mostly called Sinoe by the locals - is the capital of Sinoe County in Liberia , West Africa . The city is located at the mouth of the Sinoe River in the Atlantic Ocean and lies on the edge of mangrove swamps that are worth protecting .

history

The Greenville area was purchased by the Mississippi Colonization Society in 1838 to establish the Mississippi Colony in Africa . Judge James Green , who lives in the US state of Mississippi , and the place name Greenville reminds of him, helped here . The American Liberians succeeded only with military force, supported by US warships, to survive the conflicts with the indigenous population (mostly belonging to the Kru and Grebo) that lasted into the 1930s . The Sinoe County therefore remained economically underdeveloped and is also on population data under the national average.

population

About 16,434 people live in Greenville , a large part of the population is Christian.

Infrastructure

The city of Greenville is of outstanding importance as an administrative center for the county and has schools, churches, a health center and a police station. Greenville is a fishing port and there are regular boat connections to Monrovia and Harper . The road network is insufficiently developed.

literature

• Alan Huffman: Mississippi in Africa . Gotham Books, New York 2004, ISBN 1-59240-044-2 , pp. 328 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sinoe County Development Agenda. (PDF; 3.6 MB) Gouvernement of Liberia, July 18, 2008, p. 84 , accessed on February 2, 2011 (English). 
2. ↑ Final results of the 2008 census, NPHC 2008 Report Final. (PDF; 676 kB) In: Liberian Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information-Systems (LISGIS). Retrieved October 11, 2010 .