
Foreign Trade and Transport in Liberia, Monrovia
Business in Liberia: Freeport of Monrovia, tax haven, Kpelle
Liberia is a West African country
- Total Liberian population: 4.3 million inhabitants
- 2001: 3.2 million inhabitants
- Capital of Liberia: Monrovia (1 million inhabitants)
- Iron ore deposits
- Liberia is a tax haven
- Freeport of Monrovia.
- Liberia has the second largest
ship registries in the world
- Currency of Liberia: Liberian Dollar
- Liberia share borders with Ivory Coast, Guinea
and Sierra Leone
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,
former President of Liberia and Nobel Peace Prize
- 2014: Ebola virus epidemic
Transport and Logistics
- Access to the Dakar-Lagos Transport Corridor

Trade and Business Organisations (Liberia)
- West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ)
- Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
- Mano River Union (MRU)
- African Union
- AUDA-NEPAD
- Economic Commission for Africa
- African Development Bank
Liberian Students from Liberia
- Masters: Business in Africa, Transport and Logistics in Africa
- Doctorate in African Business

More information: Trade and Business in Liberia, at EENI Global Business School Website.

- English is the official language of Liberia (only 15% of Liberians speak English)
- In Liberia, more than thirty languages are spoken:
- Kpelle: 20% of the population
- Bassa: 13%
- Grebo: 10%
- South Sotho
- Gio

- Total Liberian area: 111,369 km²
- Calling code of Liberia: 231
- Liberian code top-level domain: .lr

Regions of the Republic of Liberia
The Republic of Liberia is composed of fifteen counties (capital/population in thousands of people):

- Bomi (Tubmanburg/66)
- Bong (Gbarnga/255)
- Gbarpolu (Bopolu)
- Gran Bassa (Buchanan/160)
- Gran Cape Mount (Robertsport/79)
- Gran Gedeh (Zwedru/100)
- Gran Kru (Barclayville)
- Lofa (Voinjama/248)
- Margibi (Kakata/97)
- Maryland (Harper/85)
- Montserrado (Bensonville - Monrovia)
- Nimba (Sanniquellie, 314)
- River Cess (River Cess)
- River Gee (Fish Town)
- Sinoe (Greenville)
Religion in Liberia:
- African Traditional Religions
- Christianity (85%)
- Islam
Liberians ethnicities
The main Liberian ethnicities (% of the Liberian population) are:
- Kpelle: 20
- Bassas: 13
- Grebo: 10
- Dan: 8
- Mano: 8
- Krou: 6
- Loma: 5
- Gola: 4
- Vai: 4
- Krahn: 4
- Mandinka: 3
History of Liberia
- 1461: contact with the Portuguese (Costa da Pimenta)
- Slave Trade
- 1602: arrival of the Netherlander
- 1663: arrival of the English
- 1822: foundation of Liberia by the American Colonisation
Society,
with the objective of installing freed black American slaves.
- Independence of Liberia: 1847 (U.S.).
Liberia was the first African nation to obtain its
independence
- 1880: annexation of the Kingdom of Medina
- 1989: first civil Liberian war
Higher Education in Liberia
Public Universities
- University of Liberia (Monrovia, Montserrado)
- University William V. S. Tubman (Cape Palmas, Maryland)
Private Universities
- University of Cuttington (Suakoko, Episcopal Church of the United States)
- African University Bible College (Yekepa, Nimba)
- African Methodist Episcopal University (Monrovia, Montserrado)
- Stella Maris Polytechnic (Monrovia, Montserrado)
- United Methodist University (Monrovia, Montserrado)
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