Montserrado County

Montserrado County
Symbols
flag
Basic data
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
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

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. ↑ 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.