Gbarnga
Gbarnga is the capital city of Bong County, Liberia, lying north east of Monrovia. During the First Liberian Civil War, it was the base for Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia.
- Type: City with 86,000 residents
- Description: city in Liberia
- Also known as: “Gbanga”, “Gbanka”, “Gbarnga City”, and “Gbarnka”
Gbarnga
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Bong County, Liberia, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
6.9963° or 6° 59′ 47″ north
Longitude
-9.4709° or 9° 28′ 15″ west
Population
86,000
Elevation
830 feet (253 metres)
Open location code
6CRGXGWH+GJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Uzbek—“Gbarnga” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Gbarnga”
- Amharic: “ግባርንጋ”
- Arabic: “غبارنجا”
- Arabic: “غبارنغا”
- Armenian: “Գբարնգա”
- Asturian: “Gbarnga”
- Azerbaijani: “Gbarnga”
- Belarusian: “Гбарнга”
- Bengali: “গ্বার্নগা”
- Breton: “Gbarnga”
- Bulgarian: “Гбарнга”
- Catalan: “Gbarnga”
- Cebuano: “Gbarnga”
- Chinese: “邦加”
- Czech: “Gbarnga”
- Danish: “Gbarnga”
- Dutch: “Gbarnga”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبارنجا”
- Estonian: “Gbarnga”
- Finnish: “Gbarnga”
- French: “Gbarnga”
- German: “Gbarnga”
- Greek: “Γκμπάρνγκα”
- Hausa: “Gbarnga”
- Hindi: “ग्बारंगा”
- Hungarian: “Gbarnga”
- Indonesian: “Gbarnga”
- Irish: “Gbarnga”
- Italian: “Gbarnga”
- Japanese: “グバルンガ”
- Japanese: “バルンガ”
- Javanese: “Gbarnga”
- Kazakh: “Гбарнга”
- Kirghiz: “Гбарнга”
- Korean: “바릉가”
- Lithuanian: “Gbarnga”
- Malagasy: “Gbarnga”
- Malay: “Gbarnga”
- Moksha: “Гбарнга”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gbarnga”
- Norwegian: “Gbarnga”
- Oromo: “Gbarnga”
- Panjabi: “ਗਬਾਰਨਗਾ”
- Persian: “گبارنگا”
- Polish: “Gbarnga”
- Portuguese: “Gbarnga”
- Pushto: “ګبارنګا”
- Russian: “Гбарнга”
- Russian: “Гбарнге”
- Somali: “Gbarnga”
- Spanish: “Gbarnga”
- Swahili: “Gbarnga”
- Swedish: “Gbarnga”
- Tajik: “Гбарнга”
- Tatar: “Гбарнга”
- Thai: “บาร์งา”
- Turkish: “Gbarnga”
- Ukrainian: “Гбарнга”
- Urdu: “گبارنگا”
- Uzbek: “Gbarnga”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Barwalor Quarter and Gbandi Quarter.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Bong County Police Detachment Depot One and Church of the Lord Prayer Fellowship.
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