Paynesville
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: town in Liberia
- Also known as: “Paynesville, Liberia” and “Paynsville”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sinkor and Chocolate City.
Sinkor
Suburb
Sinkor is a section of the Monrovia metropolitan area in Liberia. The United Nations Mission in Liberia has its headquarters in Sinkor. Embassies, health facilities, and educational institutions, and non-governmental organizations are also in Sinkor. Sinkor is situated 5 miles northwest of Paynesville.
Chocolate City
Hamlet
Chocolate City is a central-northern suburb of Monrovia, the administrative capital and largest city in Liberia. It is located in the New Georgia Township. Chocolate City is situated 5 miles northwest of Paynesville.
Gardnersville
Suburb
Gardnersville or Gardnesville is a township in the Greater Monrovia District, Liberia. During the Liberian Civil War, the area was war torn and thousands of refugees hid in buildings in Gardnersville and Chocolate City. Gardnersville is situated 5 miles northwest of Paynesville.
Paynesville
- Categories: human settlement, administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Montserrado County, Liberia, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
6.26748° or 6° 16′ 3″ northLongitude
-10.70898° or 10° 42′ 32″ westElevation
7 feet (2 metres)Open location code
6CRF778R+XCOpenStreetMap ID
node 2932664159OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Paynesville” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باينسفيل”
- Belarusian: “Пейнесвіл”
- Catalan: “Paynesville”
- Chinese: “佩恩斯維爾 (賴比瑞亞)”
- Chinese: “佩恩斯維爾”
- Dutch: “Paynesville”
- French: “Paynesville”
- Fulah: “Paynesville, Liberia”
- German: “Paynesville”
- Indonesian: “Paynesville, Liberia”
- Indonesian: “Paynesville”
- Irish: “Paynesville”
- Italian: “Paynesville”
- Korean: “페인스빌”
- Moksha: “Пэйнсвилл”
- Portuguese: “Paynesville”
- Portuguese: “Paynesward”
- Ukrainian: “Пейнсвілл”
- Urdu: “پینیسویل، لائبیریا”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Paynesville”. Photo: blk24ga, CC BY 3.0.