West Africa
Liberia
Nimba

Yekepa

Yekepa is a town in the Yahmein or of northern in , lying near the border. It was the base for Lamco's iron ore mining operation until it was destroyed in the First Liberian Civil War which lasted from 1989 to 1997.
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  • Type: Town with 24,700 residents
  • Description: place in Nimba County, Liberia
  • Also known as: “Lamco” and “Lamco Community”

Yekepa

Latitude
7.57531° or 7° 34′ 31″ north
Longitude
-8.54194° or 8° 32′ 31″ west
Population
24,700
Elevation
1,673 feet (510 metres)
Open location code
6CVHHFG5+46
Open­Street­Map ID
node 321543658
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2272790
Wiki­data ID
Q3179587
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“Yekepa” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “New Yekepa”
  • Chinese: “耶凯帕”
  • Chinese: “耶凱帕”
  • Danish: “Yekepa”
  • Dutch: “Yekepa”
  • French: “Yekepa”
  • Fulah: “Yekepa”
  • Greek: “Γιεκέπα”
  • Hebrew: “יקפה”
  • Irish: “Yekepa”
  • Italian: “Yekepa”
  • Japanese: “イェケパ”
  • Lithuanian: “Jekepa”
  • Polish: “Yekepa”
  • Portuguese: “Yekepa”
  • Swedish: “New Yekepa”
  • Urdu: “یکیپا”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Yekepa”. Photo: Sahmeditor, Public domain.