River Gee County

River Gee County
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Basic data
Country	Liberia
Capital	Fish Town
surface	5113 km²
Residents	66,789 (2008)
density	13 inhabitants per km²
founding	2000
ISO 3166-2	LR-RG

Coordinates: 7 ° 55 ′  N , 10 ° 0 ′  W

River Gee County is an administrative region ( county ) in Liberia , it has a size of 5 113  km² and had 66,789 inhabitants at the last census (2008).

The administrative region is divided into 10 districts. The capital is Fish Town in the Potupo District.

District	Ew. (2008) male	Ew. (2008) female	Ew. (2008) total
Chaedpo	5,435	5,083	10,518
Gbeapo	5,743	5,191	10,934
Glaro	2,613	2,379	4,992
Karforh	3,072	2,884	5,956
Nanee	3,421	2,581	6.002
Nyenawiliken	2,668	2,491	5,159
Nyenebo	3,046	2,657	5,703
Potupo	3,689	3,648	7,337
Sarbo	2,680	2,640	5,320
Tuobo	2,496	2,372	4,868
River Gee	34,863	31,926	66,789

The county is located in southeast Liberia and borders the Republic of Ivory Coast . The region was formed from part of Grand Gedeh in 2000 .
The majority of the population lives from agriculture. The main produce in River Gee is rice, followed by cassava and bananas.

politics

In the 2005 first Democratic Senate election after the Civil War, Frederick Doe Cherue was elected by COTOL . As part of a required by-election in 2009, J. Nathaniel Williams was also elected second Senator by the LDP .

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).