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Liberia, in , is a wonderful place to immerse yourself in the local culture. Liberia has a thriving music scene, known as hip co, which blends hip hop with colloquial Liberian English.
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is the capital, and with a population of around 1.6 million, also the largest city in Liberia. The city center is the image of a tropical capital, melting in the hot sun.

, also previously known as Grand Bassa on some maps, is the third largest city in Liberia, lying on Waterhouse Bay, part of the Atlantic Ocean.

, situated on , is the capital of in Liberia. It is a coastal town situated between the Atlantic Ocean and the Hoffman River. is Liberia's 11th largest town, with a population of 17,837.

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is a small city and surfing destination in Northern Liberia, it is 50 km north of the capital .

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is a in , Liberia. It is the country's largest of rainforest, was the first national park established in the country, and contains the second-largest area of primary tropical rainforest in after in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire.

Liberia

Latitude of center
6.261° or 6° 15′ 40″ north
Longitude of center
-9.294° or 9° 17′ 38″ west
Population
3,480,000
Area
43,000 miles² (111,370 km²)
Elevation
666 feet (203 metres)
Capital
Currency
Dollar (LRD)
Phone code
.lr
Internet domain
231
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424311573
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
2275384
Wiki­data ID
Q1014
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Liberia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Либериа”
  • Abkhazian: “Либериатәи ареспублика”
  • Achinese: “Liberia”
  • Adyghe: “Либерие”
  • Afrikaans: “Liberië”
  • Akan: “Laeberia”
  • Albanian: “Liberi”
  • Albanian: “Liberia”
  • Amharic: “ላይቤሪያ”
  • Amis: “Liberia”
  • Angika: “लाइबेरिया”
  • Arabic: “ليبريا”
  • Arabic: “ليبيريا”
  • Aragonese: “Liberia”
  • Armenian: “Լիբերիա”
  • Arpitan: “Libèria”
  • Assamese: “লিবেৰিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Liberia”
  • Asturian: “lr”
  • Asturian: “Republic of Liberia”
  • Atayal: “Liberia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Liberiya”
  • Balinese: “Liberia”
  • Bambara: “Liberia”
  • Bambara: “Liberiya”
  • Banjar: “Liberia”
  • Bashkir: “Либерия”
  • Basque: “Liberia”
  • Bavarian: “Liberia”
  • Belarusian: “Ліберыя”
  • Belarusian: “Лібэрыя”
  • Bengali: “এলআর”
  • Bengali: “লাইবিরিয়া”
  • Bengali: “লাইবেরিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Libéria”
  • Bhojpuri: “लाइबेरिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “লাইবেরিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Liberia”
  • Bosnian: “Liberija”
  • Breton: “Liberia”
  • Bulgarian: “Либерия”
  • Burmese: “လိုက်ဘေးရီးယား”
  • Burmese: “လိုက်ဘေးရီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “လိုင်ဘေးရီးယား”
  • Catalan: “Libèria”
  • Cebuano: “Liberia”
  • Cebuano: “Liberya”
  • Central Bikol: “Libirya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Liberia”
  • Central Kurdish: “لیبیریا”
  • Central Kurdish: “لیبێریا”
  • Chavacano: “Liberia”
  • Chechen: “Либери”
  • Cherokee: “ᎳᏈᎵᏯ”
  • Chinese: “Liberia”
  • Chinese: “Lìbǐlǐyà”
  • Chinese: “利比利亞”
  • Chinese: “利比里亚 / 賴比瑞亞”
  • Chinese: “利比里亚”
  • Chinese: “利比里亚度量衡系统”
  • Chinese: “利比里亞”
  • Chinese: “利比里亞度量衡系統”
  • Chinese: “賴比瑞亞”
  • Chuvash: “Либери”
  • Cornish: “Liberi”
  • Corsican: “Liberia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Liberiya”
  • Croatian: “Liberija”
  • Czech: “Libérie”
  • Dagbani: “Liberia”
  • Danish: “Liberia”
  • Dhivehi: “ލައިބީރިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Liberya”
  • Dotyali: “लाइबेरिया”
  • Dutch: “LBR”
  • Dutch: “Liberia”
  • Dutch: “LR”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Liberia”
  • Dzongkha: “ལཱའི་བེ་རི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Либерий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليبيريا”
  • Esperanto: “Liberio”
  • Esperanto: “LR”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Liberio”
  • Estonian: “Libeeria Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Libeeria”
  • Ewe: “Liberia nutome”
  • Ewe: “Liberia”
  • Extremaduran: “Liberia”
  • Extremaduran: “Libéria”
  • Farefare: “Liberia”
  • Faroese: “Liberia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Liberia”
  • Finnish: “Liberia”
  • Finnish: “Liberian tasavalta”
  • Fon: “Liberiato”
  • Fon: “Liberiatò”
  • French: “la République du Libéria”
  • French: “Liberia”
  • French: “Libéria”
  • French: “LR”
  • Fulah: “Labiriyaa”
  • Fulah: “Liberiyaa”
  • Ga: “Liberia”
  • Gagauz: “Liberiya”
  • Galician: “Liberia”
  • Ganda: “Liberia”
  • Ganda: “Liberiya”
  • Ganda: “Liberya”
  • Georgian: “ლიბერია”
  • German: “Liberia”
  • German: “lr”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Liberia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Liberia”
  • Gilaki: “ليبريا”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Λιβερίας”
  • Greek: “Λιβερία”
  • Guarani: “Livéria”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Libérya”
  • Gujarati: “લાઇબેરિયા”
  • Gun: “Liberia”
  • Haitian: “Liberya”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Liberia”
  • Hausa: “Laberiya”
  • Hawaiian: “Lipelia”
  • Hebrew: “ליבריה”
  • Hindi: “लाइबेरिया”
  • Hungarian: “Libéria”
  • Hungarian: “Libériai Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Líbería”
  • Ido: “Liberia”
  • Igbo: “Liberia”
  • Iloko: “Liberia”
  • Inari Sami: “Liberia täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Liberia”
  • Indonesian: “Liberia”
  • Interlingua: “Liberia”
  • Interlingue: “Liberia”
  • Irish: “an Libéir”
  • Irish: “An Libéir”
  • Italian: “Liberia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Laibiiria”
  • Japanese: “リベリア”
  • Japanese: “リベリア共和国”
  • Javanese: “Libèria”
  • Kabiyè: “Liiberiya”
  • Kabyle: “Liberya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Liberia”
  • Kalmyk: “Либермудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಬೇರಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಲೈಬೀರಿಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Liberiya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Либерия”
  • Kashmiri: “لایبیرِیا”
  • Kashubian: “Liberiô”
  • Kazakh: “Либерия”
  • Khmer: “លីបេរីយ៉ា”
  • Kikuyu: “Liberia”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Liberiya”
  • Kirghiz: “Либерия”
  • Komering: “Liberia”
  • Kongo: “Liberia”
  • Korean: “라이베리아”
  • Kotava: “Liberia”
  • Kurdish: “Lîberya”
  • Kurdish: “لیبەریا”
  • Ladin: “Liberia”
  • Ladino: “Liberia”
  • Lao: “ລິເບີເຣຍ”
  • Lao: “ໄລບີເລຍ”
  • Latin: “Liberia”
  • Latvian: “Libērija”
  • Ligurian: “Libeïa”
  • Limburgan: “Liberia”
  • Lingala: “Liberia”
  • Lingala: “Libériya”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Liberia”
  • Literary Chinese: “利比里亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Liberija”
  • Livvi: “Liberii”
  • Lombard: “Liberia”
  • Low German: “Liberia”
  • Low German: “Liberië”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Liberia”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Liberiya”
  • Lule Sami: “Liberra”
  • Lule Sami: “Libierra”
  • Luxembourgish: “Liberia”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Liberia”
  • Macedonian: “Либериа”
  • Macedonian: “Либерија”
  • Malagasy: “Liberia”
  • Malagasy: “Liberià”
  • Malay: “Liberia”
  • Malayalam: “ലൈബീരിയ”
  • Maltese: “il-Liberja”
  • Maltese: “Liberja”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Liberja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯂꯤꯕꯦꯔꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “Yn Laibeer”
  • Maori: “Raipiri”
  • Marathi: “लायबेरिया”
  • Mazanderani: “لیبریا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Liberia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Liberia”
  • Minangkabau: “Liberia”
  • Mingrelian: “ლიბერია”
  • Mirandese: “Libéria”
  • Moksha: “Либэрия”
  • Mongolian: “Либери”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ليبيريا”
  • N'Ko: “ߟߌߓߋߙߌߦߊ߫ ߞߊ߲ߓߍ߲”
  • N'Ko: “ߟߌߓߋߙߌߦߊ߫”
  • Narom: “Libérie”
  • Nepali: “लाइबेरिया”
  • Nepali: “लाईबेरिया”
  • Newari: “लाइबेरिया”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Laiberia”
  • North Ndebele: “Libheriya”
  • Northern Frisian: “Libeeria”
  • Northern Sami: “Liberia dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Liberia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Liberia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Liberia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Liberia”
  • Norwegian: “Liberia”
  • Novial: “Liberia”
  • Obolo: “Laiberia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Libèria”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Liberia”
  • Oriya: “ଲାଇବେରିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Laayibeeriyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Либери”
  • Pali: “लायबीरिया”
  • Pampanga: “Liberia”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾਈਬੀਰੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾਈਬੇਰੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Liberia”
  • Pedi: “Liberia”
  • Persian: “لیبریا”
  • Piemontese: “Liberia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Liberia”
  • Polish: “Liberia”
  • Portuguese: “Libéria”
  • Portuguese: “lr”
  • Portuguese: “República da Libéria”
  • Pushto: “لايبيريا”
  • Pushto: “لايبېريا”
  • Pushto: “لیبریا”
  • Quechua: “Liberia”
  • Quechua: “Libirya”
  • Quechua: “Lipirya”
  • Romanian: “Liberia”
  • Romansh: “Liberia”
  • Rundi: “Liberiya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Либери”
  • Russian: “Либерия”
  • Russian: “Республика Либерия”
  • Sakizaya: “Liberia”
  • Samoan: “Liberia”
  • Samogitian: “Liberėjė”
  • Sango: “Liberïa”
  • Sanskrit: “लायबीरिया”
  • Sardinian: “Libèria”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Liberia”
  • Scots: “Liberie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Libèir”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Libèiria”
  • Serbian: “LBR”
  • Serbian: “Liberija”
  • Serbian: “Либериа”
  • Serbian: “Либерија”
  • Serbian: “Република Либерија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Liberija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းလၢႆႇပေးရီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Liberia”
  • Shona: “Ribheriya”
  • Sicilian: “Libberia”
  • Silesian: “Liberyjo”
  • Sindhi: “لائبيریا”
  • Sindhi: “لائبیریا”
  • Sinhala: “ලයිබීරියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Liberia tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Liberia”
  • Slovak: “Libéria”
  • Slovak: “Libérijská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Liberija”
  • Somali: “Laybeeriya”
  • Somali: “Liberia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیبریا”
  • Southern Sotho: “Liberia”
  • Spanish: “Liberia”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Liberia”
  • Spanish: “República de Liberia”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵍⵉⴱⵉⵔⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Liberia”
  • Swahili: “Liberia”
  • Swati: “ILibheriya”
  • Swedish: “Liberia”
  • Swedish: “Republic of Liberia”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Liberia”
  • Swiss German: “Liberia”
  • Tagalog: “Liberia”
  • Tajik: “Либерия”
  • Talysh: “Liberijə”
  • Talysh: “Liberya”
  • Tamil: “லைபீரியா”
  • Taroko: “Liberia”
  • Tatar: “Либерия”
  • Telugu: “లైబీరియా”
  • Thai: “ประเทศไลบีเรีย”
  • Thai: “ไลบีเรีย”
  • Tibetan: “ལི་བེ་རི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ላይቤሪያ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Laipelia”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Liberia”
  • Tsonga: “Layiberiya”
  • Tumbuka: “Liberia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “ليبيريا”
  • Turkish: “Liberya”
  • Turkmen: “Liberiýa”
  • Twi: “Liberia”
  • Udmurt: “Либерия”
  • Uighur: “لىبېرىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліберія”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Ліберія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Liberija”
  • Urdu: “لائبیریا”
  • Uzbek: “Liberiya”
  • Venetian: “Liberia”
  • Venetian: “Łiberia”
  • Veps: “Liberii”
  • Vietnamese: “Li-bê-ri-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Liberia”
  • Vlax Romani: “Liberiya”
  • Volapük: “Liberän”
  • Võro: “Libeeriä”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Liberia”
  • Welsh: “Liberia”
  • Western Frisian: “Libearia”
  • Western Frisian: “Liberia”
  • Western Mari: “Либери”
  • Western Panjabi: “لائیبیریا”
  • Wolof: “Libeeria”
  • Wolof: “Liberiya”
  • Wu Chinese: “利比里亚”
  • Yakut: “Либерия”
  • Yiddish: “ליבעריע”
  • Yoruba: “Laberia”
  • Yoruba: “Làìbéríà”
  • Yoruba: “Liberia”
  • Yue Chinese: “利比利亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Liberia”
  • Zhuang: “Liberia”
  • Zulu: “i-Liberia”
  • Zulu: “ILiberia”
  • “LBR”
  • “Libeeriä”
  • “Liberėjė”
  • “Liberia”
  • “LR”
  • “ma Lapewija”
  • “लाइबेरिया”

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