West Africa
Liberia
Montserrado County

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 Liberian National Museum and Antoinette Tubman Stadium.

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.

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.

Government office
The Apostolic Nunciature to Liberia is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in . It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador.

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.

Suburb
is a section of the Monrovia metropolitan area in . The United Nations Mission in Liberia has its headquarters in . Embassies, health facilities, and educational institutions, and non-governmental organizations are also in .

Monrovia

Latitude
6.328° or 6° 19′ 41″ north
Longitude
-10.7978° or 10° 47′ 52″ west
Population
1,010,000
Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)
Named after
Monrovia
IATA airport code
MLW
United Nations Location Code
LR MLW
Open location code
6CRF86H2+6V
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”
  • 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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