Lofa County

Lofa County
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Basic data
Country	Liberia
Capital	Voinjama
surface	9982 km²
Residents	276,863 (2008)
density	28 inhabitants per km²
founding	1964
ISO 3166-2	LR-LO

Coordinates: 7 ° 55 ′  N , 10 ° 0 ′  W

Lofa County (or Loffa ) is an administrative region ( county ) in Liberia , it has a size of 9 982  km² and had 276,863 inhabitants at the last census (2008).

The administrative region is divided into seven districts. The capital is Voinjama in the district of the same name.

District	Ew. (2008) male	Ew. (2008) female	Ew. (2008) total
Foya	36,152	37,160	73,312
Kolahun	28,586	31,971	60,557
Quardu Bondi	8,824	9,961	18,785
Salayea	11,399	12,179	23,578
Vahun	8,621	8,516	17,137
Voinjama	20,623	22,167	42,790
Zorzor	19,406	21,298	40,704
Lofa	133,611	143.252	276,863

The region is located in the far north of Liberia and borders on Guinea and Sierra Leone . In 2001 the southwestern adjacent Gbarpolu County was split off from Lofa. The Lofa region is named after the Lofa River . Mount Wuteve is located in Lofa .

history

The county was a center of the Liberian civil war , from 1999 to 2003 numerous residents fled Lofa. According to reports from the International Red Cross , the return of refugees began in 2004.

A comparative study carried out in the village of Zewordamai was able to document the progress and changes since the end of the war.

politics

In the 2005 first democratic Senate elections after the Civil War, Sumo G Kupee were elected by COTOL and Fomba K. Kanneh by ALCOP .

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. ↑ Understanding diversity: a study of livelihoods and forest landscapes in Liberia. (PDF; 880 kB) In: Liberian IUCN Institute. Retrieved November 16, 2010 . 
4. ↑ en: Wiki, article »Liberian general election, 2005« (the websites linked there for the election are no longer present).