Margibi County
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Country | Liberia | |
Capital | Kakata | |
surface | 2616 km² | |
Residents | 209,923 (2008) | |
density | 80 inhabitants per km² | |
founding | 1985 | |
ISO 3166-2 | LR-MG |
Coordinates: 6 ° 30 ′ N , 10 ° 15 ′ W
Margibi County is an administrative region ( county ) in Liberia , it has an area of 2616 km² and had 209,923 inhabitants at the last census (2008).
The administrative region is divided into four districts. The capital is Kakata in the district of the same name.
District | Ew. (2008) male |
Ew. (2008) female |
Ew. (2008) total |
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Firestone | 31,228 | 30,760 | 61,988 |
Gibi | 7,359 | 6,891 | 14,250 |
Kakada | 44,667 | 44,037 | 88,704 |
Mamba Kaba | 22,586 | 22,395 | 44,981 |
Margibi | 105,840 | 104.083 | 209.923 |
Margibi is located on the Atlantic coast and borders the capital Monrovia in the west .
politics
In the 2005 first Democratic Senate election after the Civil War, Clarice Alpha Jah was elected by the LP and Roland Cooper Kaine by the CDC .
Infrastructure
About 15 kilometers east of the provincial capital Kakata is the Borlola River Bridge , built in the 1985s , over which an economically important road leads towards Gibi Mountain .
The Duside Hospital , about 10 kilometers southeast of the city Careysburg , is the most modern hospital in Liberia.
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.
- ↑ en: Wiki, article »Liberian general election, 2005« (the websites linked there for the election are no longer present).