Monrovia

Monrovia is the capital, and with a population of around 1.6 million, also the largest city in . The city center is the image of a tropical capital, melting in the hot sun.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Antoinette Tubman Stadium and Liberian National Museum.

Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The is a multi-purpose stadium located in Monrovia, . It is used mostly for football matches although it has also been used for music concerts, major church events, political rallies and Ebola treatment.

Museum
Photo: Jforest59, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Museum of Liberia is a national museum in Monrovia, . Initially housed in the First Executive Mansion on Ashmun Street of the city which is now used as a library, it was established by an Act of the National Legislature in 1958 under the administration of Liberia's 18th President, Dr William V.S.

Cemetery
is a near downtown Monrovia, the capital city of . During the Tolbert administration, the cemetery became the focus of the national Decoration Day, which continued to be observed after Tolbert was murdered in a 1980 coup d'état and his body dumped at the cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Point and Clara Town.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a township of the capital city of Monrovia, located on a 0.53 km2 peninsula which juts out into the Atlantic Ocean between the and rivers.

Suburb
is a slum located on in Monrovia, the capital of . It is built upon a swamp. was one of several ethnic communes that was squatted in the outskirts of Monrovia.

Monrovia

Latitude
6.3204° or 6° 19′ 13″ north
Longitude
-10.806° or 10° 48′ 22″ west
Population
1,010,000
Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)
IATA airport code
MLW
United Nations Location Code
LR MLW
Open location code
6CRF85CV+4H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27564980
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2274895
Wiki­data ID
Q3748
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In Other Languages

From Abron to Zulu—“Monrovia” goes by many names.
  • Abron: “Monrovia”
  • Afrikaans: “Monrovia”
  • Albanian: “Monrovia”
  • Amharic: “ሞንሮቪያ”
  • Arabic: “مونروفيا”
  • Aragonese: “Monrovia”
  • Armenian: “Մոնրովիա”
  • Asturian: “Monrovia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Monroviya”
  • Balinese: “Monrovia”
  • Bambara: “Mɔnrovia”
  • Basque: “Monrovia”
  • Belarusian: “Манровія”
  • Bengali: “মনরোভিয়া”
  • Bengali: “মোনরোভিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Monrovia”
  • Breton: “Monrovia”
  • Bulgarian: “Монровия”
  • Catalan: “Monròvia”
  • Cebuano: “Monrovia (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Monrovia”
  • Central Bikol: “Monrovia”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆنرۆڤیا”
  • Chechen: “Монрови”
  • Chinese: “Monrovia”
  • Chinese: “蒙罗维亚”
  • Chinese: “蒙羅維亞”
  • Cornish: “Monrovia”
  • Croatian: “Monrovia”
  • Czech: “Monrovia”
  • Dagbani: “Monrovia”
  • Danish: “Monrovia”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Monrovia”
  • Dutch: “Monrovia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه مونروفيا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مونروفيا”
  • Esperanto: “Monrovio”
  • Estonian: “Monrovia”
  • Ewe: “Monrovia”
  • Extremaduran: “Monrovia”
  • Fanti: “Monrovia”
  • Farefare: “Monrovia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Monrovia”
  • Finnish: “Monrovia”
  • French: “Monrovia”
  • Fulah: “Monrovia”
  • Ga: “Monrovia”
  • Galician: “Monrovia”
  • Georgian: “მონროვია”
  • German: “Monrovia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Monrovia”
  • Greek: “Μονρόβια”
  • Guarani: “Monrovia”
  • Gujarati: “મોનરોવિઆ”
  • Haitian: “Monrovia”
  • Haitian: “Monwovya”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Monrovia”
  • Hausa: “Monrovia”
  • Hebrew: “מונרוביה”
  • Hindi: “मोनरोविया”
  • Hungarian: “Monrovia”
  • Icelandic: “Monróvía”
  • Ido: “Monrovia”
  • Igbo: “Monrovia”
  • Inari Sami: “Monrovia”
  • Indonesian: “Monrovia”
  • Interlingua: “Monrovia”
  • Interlingue: “Monrovia”
  • Irish: “Monrovia”
  • Italian: “Monrovia”
  • Japanese: “モンロビア”
  • Javanese: “Monrovia”
  • Kabiyè: “Monrooviya”
  • Kabyle: “Monrovia”
  • Kannada: “ಮೊನ್ರೋವಿಯಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “مونرووِیا”
  • Kazakh: “Монровия қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Монровия”
  • Kikuyu: “Monrovia”
  • Kirghiz: “Монровия”
  • Komering: “Monrovia”
  • Kongo: “Monrovia”
  • Korean: “몬로비아”
  • Kotava: “Monrovia”
  • Kurdish: “Monrovia”
  • Kusaal: “Monrovia”
  • Latin: “Monrovia”
  • Latvian: “Monrovija”
  • Ligurian: “Monròvvia”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Monrovia”
  • Lithuanian: “Monrovija”
  • Livvi: “Monrouvii”
  • Lombard: “Monrovia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Monrovia”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Monrovia”
  • Macedonian: “Монровија”
  • Malagasy: “Monrovia”
  • Malay: “Monrovia”
  • Malayalam: “മൺറോവിയ”
  • Marathi: “मोन्रोव्हिया”
  • Mazanderani: “مونروویا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Monrovia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Monrovia”
  • Minangkabau: “Monrovia”
  • Mingrelian: “მონროვია”
  • Moksha: “Монровия”
  • Mongolian: “Монрови”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مونروڤيا”
  • Mossi: “Monrovia”
  • N'Ko: “ߟߌߓߋߙߌߦߊ߫ ߞߎߓߋߘߊ”
  • N'Ko: “ߡߏ߲ߙߏߝ߭ߌ߬ߦߊ߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߡߏ߲߬ߙߏߝ߭ߌ߬ߦߊ߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߤߙߐߘߎ߯ ߞߎߓߋߘߊ”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Monrovia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Monrovia”
  • Northern Sami: “Monrovia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monrovia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Monrovia”
  • Norwegian: “Monrovia”
  • Novial: “Monrovia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Monròvia”
  • Ossetian: “Монрови”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੋਨਰੋਵੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Monrovia”
  • Persian: “مونروویا”
  • Piemontese: “Monrovia”
  • Polish: “Monrovia”
  • Polish: “Monrowia”
  • Portuguese: “Monrovia”
  • Portuguese: “Monróvia”
  • Pushto: “مونروویا”
  • Quechua: “Munruwya”
  • Romanian: “Monrovia”
  • Russian: “Монровия”
  • Sakizaya: “Mong-low-wi-ya”
  • Sardinian: “Monròvia”
  • Scots: “Monrovia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Monrovia”
  • Serbian: “Монровија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Monrovia”
  • Shona: “Monrovia”
  • Sicilian: “Monrovia”
  • Silesian: “Monrovia”
  • Sindhi: “مونروويا”
  • Sinhala: “මොන්රෝවියා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Monrovia”
  • Slovak: “Monrovia”
  • Slovenian: “Monrovija”
  • Somali: “Monrofia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مانروویا”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Monrovia”
  • Spanish: “Monrovia”
  • Swahili: “Monrovia”
  • Swedish: “Monrovia”
  • Tagalog: “Monrovia”
  • Tajik: “Монровия”
  • Talysh: “Monrovijə”
  • Tamil: “மன்ரோவியா”
  • Tamil: “மொன்ரோவியா”
  • Tamil: “மொன்றோவியா”
  • Telugu: “మన్రోవియా”
  • Thai: “มอนโรเวีย”
  • Thai: “มันโรเวีย”
  • Tibetan: “མོང་རོ་ཝི་ཡ།”
  • Turkish: “Monrovia”
  • Turkmen: “Monrowiýa”
  • Twi: “Monrovia”
  • Udmurt: “Монровия”
  • Ukrainian: “Монровія”
  • Urdu: “مونروویا”
  • Uzbek: “Monroviya”
  • Venetian: “Monrovia”
  • Veps: “Monrovii”
  • Vietnamese: “Monrovia”
  • Volapük: “Monrovia”
  • Võro: “Monrovia”
  • Wali (Ghana): “Monrovia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Monrovia”
  • Welsh: “Monrovia”
  • Western Frisian: “Monrovia”
  • Western Mari: “Монрови”
  • Western Panjabi: “مونروویا”
  • Wu Chinese: “蒙罗维亚”
  • Yiddish: “מאנראוויע”
  • Yoruba: “Monrovia”
  • Yue Chinese: “蒙羅維亞”
  • Zulu: “i-Monrovia”
  • “Monrovia”

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