Margibi County

Margibi County
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Basic data
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
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

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).