Montserrado County
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Country | Liberia | |
Capital | Bensonville | |
surface | 1909 km² | |
Residents | 1,118,241 (2008) | |
density | 586 inhabitants per km² | |
founding | 1839 | |
ISO 3166-2 | LR-MO |
Coordinates: 6 ° 30 ′ N , 10 ° 30 ′ W
Montserrado County is an administrative region ( county ) in Liberia , it has a size of 1 909 km² and had 1,118,241 inhabitants at the last census (2008).
The administrative region is divided into five districts. The Liberian capital Monrovia is the county's largest city and has a special status. Bensonville is the capital of the county and is located in the district of the same name.
District | Ew. (2008) male |
Ew. (2008) female |
Ew. (2008) total |
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Careysburg | 15,048 | 14,664 | 29,712 |
Commonwealth | 5,752 | 6.124 | 11,876 |
Greater Monrovia | 476.473 | 494.351 | 970.824 |
St Paul River | 34,981 | 36,850 | 71,831 |
Todee | 17,479 | 16,519 | 33,998 |
Montserrado | 549.733 | 568.508 | 1,118,241 |
Notable locations include: Arthington , Brewerville , Careysburg , Clay-Ashland , Crozerville , Dixville , Millsburg, and Virginia .
Montserrado is on the Atlantic coast .
On the flag of Montserrado, an island with two trees and a house is depicted in the middle between a dark blue and red background. This indicates that on Providence Island in Montserrado, old and new cultures (indigenous ethnic groups and the former slaves who came from North America, see also ethnic groups in Liberia ) met.
politics
In the 2005 first Democratic Senate election after the Civil War, Joyce Musu Freeman was elected by the CDC . Mrs. Geraldine Doe-Sheriff , also from the CDC , received her Senate seat in 2009 in a special election.
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.
- ↑ Flags of the World ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.