Nimba County

This article covers the county in Liberia; for further meanings of terms of the same name see Nimba (disambiguation) .

Nimba County
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Basic data
Country	Liberia
Capital	Sanniquellie
surface	11,551 km²
Residents	462,026 (2008)
density	40 inhabitants per km²
founding	1964
ISO 3166-2	LR-NI

Coordinates: 6 ° 45 ′  N , 8 ° 45 ′  W

Nimba County is an administrative region ( county ) in Liberia , it has a size of 11,551 km² and had 462,026 inhabitants at the last census (2008).

The administrative region is divided into 17 districts. The capital is Sanniquellie in the district of the same name.

District	Ew. (2008) male	Ew. (2008) female	Ew. (2008) total
Boe & Quilla	9,163	9,099	18,262
Buu-Yao	20,028	19,979	40.007
Doe	18,122	17,796	35,918
Garr Bain	29,813	31,412	61,225
Gbelhay-go	15,859	16,317	32,176
Gbi & Doru	4.152	3,979	8,131
Gbor	5,339	5,536	10,875
Kparblee	5,602	5,822	11,424
Leewehpea reminder	12,518	12,229	24,747
Meinpea reminder	12,237	11,920	24,157
Sanniquellie reminder	12,336	13,034	25,370
Twan River	18,658	18,821	37,479
Wee-Gbehy-Mahn	16,015	16,919	32,934
Yarmein	11,396	11,322	22,718
Yarpea warning	11,438	10,209	21,647
Yarwein Mehnsonnoh	13.101	12,483	25,584
Zoe-Garbo	14,336	15,036	29,372
Nimba	230.113	231.913	462.026

Nimba is located in northern Liberia, bordering Guinea and the Republic of Ivory Coast . On the border between the two neighboring states, close to the Liberian border, is Mont Nimba , where iron ore was found in the late 1960s . The mining of this raw material contributed to the economic development of Nimba and Liberia, but was then discontinued due to declining quality and falling world market prices.

The economic power of Nimba was a curse for the county, it became the center of the Liberian civil war . Since 2005 there have been plans to continue iron ore mining in Yekepa in view of the renewed increase in world market prices and to restart the railway line to the port of Buchanan , which has been closed since the civil war .

Dominant ethnic groups in Nimba are the Man, Dan and Mandinka .

politics

In the 2005 first Democratic Senate election after the Civil War, the former rebel leader Yormie Johnson was elected as a single candidate and Saye-Taayor Adolphus Dolo was elected by COTOL .

Cities

• Saclepea

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).