River Cess
River Cess is the capital city of Rivercess County, Liberia. As of the 2008 national census, the population stood at 2,578. It received its original name Cestos from Portuguese traders in the early 16th century from the baskets that were produced and sold in the town.- Type: Village with 3,610 residents
- Description: City in Liberia
- Also known as: “Cestos”, “Cestos City”, “Niboinkui”, “River Cess Settlement”, and “Rivercess”
River Cess
- Categories: city, port city, and locality
- Location: River Cess County, Liberia, West Africa, Africa
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“River Cess” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ወንድ ሴስ”
- Arabic: “ريفر سيس”
- Arabic: “نهر سيس”
- Armenian: “Ռիվրցես”
- Armenian: “Ցեստոս”
- Asturian: “River Cess”
- Azerbaijani: “River Cess”
- Belarusian: “Рывэр Сэс”
- Belarusian: “Рывэр-Сэс”
- Bengali: “রিভার সেস”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Kogin Cess”
- Hausa: “River Cess”
- Hebrew: “ריבר סס”
- Hindi: “रिवर सेस”
- Indonesian: “River Cess”
- Italian: “Cesstos”
- Japanese: “セストスシティ”
- Japanese: “リバーセス”
- Javanese: “River Cess”
- Kazakh: “Река Сесс”
- Kirghiz: “Ривер Сесс”
- Lithuanian: “River Sesas”
- Malay: “River Cess”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “River Cess”
- Oromo: “River Cess”
- Panjabi: “ਰਿਵਰ ਸੇਸ”
- Persian: “رودخانه سس”
- Polish: “River Cess (miasto)”
- Polish: “River Cess”
- Portuguese: “Cestos City”
- Portuguese: “River Cess”
- Pushto: “سیند سیس”
- Russian: “Ривер-Сесс”
- Russian: “Сестос-Сити”
- Somali: “River Cess”
- Spanish: “Cestos City”
- Spanish: “River Cess”
- Swahili: “River Cess”
- Swedish: “Cestos City”
- Tajik: “Ривер-Сесс”
- Tatar: “Ривер-Сесс”
- Turkish: “River Cess”
- Urdu: “ریور سیس”
- Urdu: “ریورسیس”
- Uzbek: “River Cess”
- “Cestos City”
- “River Cess”
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