West Africa
Liberia
River Cess County

River Cess

River Cess is the capital city of , . As of the 2008 national census, the population stood at 2,578. It received its original name Cestos from traders in the early 16th century from the baskets that were produced and sold in the town.
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  • Type: Village with 3,610 residents
  • Description: City in Liberia
  • Also known as: “Cestos”, “Cestos City”, “Niboinkui”, “River Cess Settlement”, and “Rivercess”

River Cess

Latitude
5.45976° or 5° 27′ 35″ north
Longitude
-9.58172° or 9° 34′ 54″ west
Population
3,610
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
IATA airport code
RVC
United Nations Location Code
LR RVC
Open location code
6CQGFC59+W8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 321350140
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2274288
Wiki­data ID
Q1057594
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“River Cess” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نهر سيس”
  • Armenian: “Ռիվրցես”
  • Armenian: “Ցեստոս”
  • Asturian: “River Cess”
  • Belarusian: “Рывэр Сэс”
  • Belarusian: “Рывэр-Сэс”
  • Catalan: “River Cess”
  • Cebuano: “Cestos City”
  • Chinese: “里弗塞斯”
  • Dutch: “Cesstos City”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر سيس”
  • Esperanto: “Cestos City”
  • Esperanto: “River Cess”
  • French: “Cesstos City”
  • French: “River Cess (Liberia)”
  • French: “River Cess (Libéria)”
  • French: “River Cess”
  • Fulah: “Fedde Cess”
  • German: “Cestos City”
  • German: “River Cess”
  • Hebrew: “ריבר סס”
  • Italian: “Cesstos”
  • Japanese: “セストスシティ”
  • Japanese: “リバーセス”
  • Lithuanian: “River Sesas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “River Cess”
  • Polish: “River Cess (miasto)”
  • Polish: “River Cess”
  • Portuguese: “Cestos City”
  • Portuguese: “River Cess”
  • Russian: “Сестос-Сити”
  • Spanish: “Cestos City”
  • Spanish: “River Cess”
  • Swedish: “Cestos City”
  • Urdu: “ریورسیس”
  • Uzbek: “River Cess”
  • “Cestos City”
  • “River Cess”

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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 “River Cess”. Photo: Sahmeditor, Public domain.