Foya
Foya is a town in the Foya District of Lofa County, Liberia. Located 66 kilometers from Voinjama, it is home to the Kissi-speaking tribes of Liberia. Foya shares border with Sierra Leone and Guinea; it is the major trade link for the people in the far north of Lofa County.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: city in Liberia
- Also known as: “Foya City”, “Foya Tangia”, and “Foya Tengia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Foya Airport.
Foya Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Foya Airport is an airport serving the town of Foya, in Lofa County, Liberia. Foya Airport is situated 2 miles west of Foya.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Genga.
Genga
Hamlet
Genga is a village in northern Liberia. It is in the Kolahun District of Lofa County. To the west is the border with Sierra Leone, whilst the border with Guinea is to the north. Mount Wuteve is 40 km to the SE. Genga is situated 6 miles west of Foya.
Foya
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
8.35865° or 8° 21′ 31″ northLongitude
-10.19605° or 10° 11′ 46″ westElevation
1,375 feet (419 metres)United Nations Location Code
LR FOYOpen location code
6CWF9R53+FHOpenStreetMap ID
node 2751280750OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2277300Wikidata ID
Q4491310
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Foya” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Foya”
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- Ido: “Foya”
- Indonesian: “Foya”
- Interlingua: “Foya”
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- Irish: “Foya”
- Italian: “Foya”
- Japanese: “フォヤ”
- Javanese: “Foya”
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- Portuguese: “Foya”
- Romanian: “Foya”
- Romansh: “Foya”
- Russian: “Фойа”
- Sardinian: “Foya”
- Scots: “Foya”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Foya”
- Serbian: “Foya”
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- Slovak: “Foya”
- Slovenian: “Foya”
- Spanish: “Foya”
- Sundanese: “Foya”
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- Swedish: “Foya”
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- Zulu: “Foya”
- “Foya”
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Notable Places Nearby
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