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Liberia 🇱🇷

Liberia is a country in Africa with a population of 5,302,681. Its capital is Monrovia. The official currency is LRD, and the main languages are English.

Quick facts

  • Capital: Monrovia
  • Continent: Africa
  • Population: 5,302,681
  • Area: 111,369 km²
  • Density: 47.6 people per km²
  • Currency: LRD
  • Languages: English
  • ISO code: LR

Where Liberia sits

Liberia 🇱🇷 is one of 54 countries in Africa, with its capital at Monrovia. It covers 111,369 square kilometres — 102nd in the world — and is home to about 5,302,681 people, 121st globally.

The countries it shares a continent with include Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. If you are learning geography region by region — which works far better than alphabetically, because memory for places is spatial — those are the ones to learn alongside it.

How Liberia compares

Raw figures are hard to hold on their own, so it helps to anchor them. In population, Liberia sits closest to Palestine and Costa Rica. In land area, its nearest counterparts are Bulgaria and Honduras.

At 47.6 people per square kilometre it is about 1.2 times below the world average of 59.4. It ranks higher by area than by population, so it is more spacious than its population alone suggests.

English is an official language in 58 countries here, among them Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas and Barbados, and 53 others. The LRD is used by Liberia and no one else.

To see Liberia next to every other country, sort the country rankings by population, area or density; its currency and languages are listed alongside every other country's in world currencies and world languages.

How to remember Liberia

Monrovia is named after James Monroe, a president of the United States, and the country's motto is 'The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here'. The flag looks like a smaller United States flag with only one star.

The flag of Liberia: red, white and blue

🇱🇷 The flag is 11 red and white horizontal stripes with a white star on a blue square in the top-left corner. The 11 stripes stand for the people who signed Liberia's Declaration of Independence, the blue square for Africa and the star for the freedom of the formerly enslaved people who founded the country.

Region and neighbours

Liberia is a country on the Atlantic coast of West Africa, between Sierra Leone and Côte d'Ivoire. It shares land borders with 3 countries: Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast.

Three facts about Liberia

  1. Liberia was settled from 1822 by thousands of freed and free-born African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans.
  2. Liberia declared independence on 26 July 1847, and it was the first African republic to gain independence.
  3. Its capital, Monrovia, was founded in 1822 and named after US President James Monroe.

Sources: Wikipedia: Liberia, Wikipedia: Flag of Liberia, Wikipedia: Monrovia, CIA World Factbook.

Quiz yourself on Liberia

Quizzes that include Liberia

Three angles are worth covering for any country — where it is, what its flag looks like, and what its capital is. For Liberia those are:

Doing all three for one continent before moving on is far more efficient than learning flags globally, then capitals globally, then the map.

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Frequently asked questions

What are the colours of the Liberia flag?

The flag of Liberia is 11 red and white horizontal stripes with a white star on a blue square in the top-left corner. The 11 stripes stand for the people who signed Liberia's Declaration of Independence, the blue square for Africa and the star for the freedom of the formerly enslaved people who founded the country.

Which countries border Liberia?

Liberia shares land borders with Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast.

How can I remember the capital of Liberia?

Monrovia is named after James Monroe, a president of the United States, and the country's motto is 'The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here'. The flag looks like a smaller United States flag with only one star.