Liberia tourist information with details about
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Countries neighbouring Liberia are: Sierra Leone, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire.
Liberia's coastline stretches from the Mano River in
the north-west to the River Cavally in the south-east; almost 600 kilometres.
Liberia was born out of the American Colonisation Society, founded
in 1816 to resettle freed American slaves in Africa.
Native rulers granted an area of land to US representatives for this
purpose.
The site was Cape Mesurado, at the mouth of the St Paul River.
The new colony was christened Liberia (liberty) and the Cape Mesurado
settlement, Monrovia; in honour of United States President, James Monroe.
Liberia became an independent republic in July 1847.
Liberia's low registry costs make it a popular flag of convenience
for merchant shipping.
The flag of Liberia can be seen on many tankers around the world.
Getting around Liberia can be difficult because much of the
country's infrastructure was neglected during the battle years of the nineties.
Liberia Life:
Part of the World News network. Other titles include Liberia Maritime and Liberia Post. News headlines are links to breaking
stories hosted elsewhere.
Liberia News:
Latest Liberian news from the All Africa channel.
The Perspective:
Aims to confront the issues head on by concentrating on telling the truth, exposing the
root causes, underlining contributing factors and identifying the class divisions which
are the undercurrent of the various problems in Liberia.
The official language of Liberia is English, although it is only
spoken by about 20 per cent of the people.
The rest of the Liberians speak various African languages.
Books
on Liberia Travel:
Browse Amazon's best-selling list of books on travel in Liberia.
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