Bong Town
Bong Town is a populated place in the Bong County of Liberia. From its establishment in 1958 through the late 1980s, the Bong Mining Company, a German-Italian-owned concession in Liberia built a substantial mining complex to surface-mine the iron ore of the mountain range just on the north side of the Margibi/Bong county borderline.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: human settlement in Liberia
- Also known as: “Bong”, “Bong Mine Community”, and “Bong Mine Town”
Bong Town
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Bong County, Liberia, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
6.81498° or 6° 48′ 54″ northLongitude
-10.35064° or 10° 21′ 2″ westElevation
522 feet (159 metres)Open location code
6CRFRJ7X+XPOpenStreetMap ID
node 476660195OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Japanese—“Bong Town” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Bong Town”
- Fulah: “Bong Town”
- German: “Bong Town”
- Japanese: “ボン・タウン”
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Highlights include Bong Medical Hospital and Bong Mine Market.
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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 “Bong Town”. Photo: Sahmeditor, Public domain.