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{{Infobox country
| conventional_long_name = Republic of Liberia
| common_name = Liberia
| image_flag = Flag of Liberia.svg
| image_coat = Coat of arms of Liberia.svg
| symbol_type = Coat of arms
| image_map = Liberia (orthographic projection).svg
| map_caption = {{map caption|location_color=dark green}}
| image_map2 =
| national_motto = "The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here"
| national_anthem = ''[[All Hail, Liberia, Hail!]]''<br /><center>[[File:Liberia National Anthem.ogg]]</center>
| official_languages = [[English language|English]]
| languages_type = Spoken and national languages<ref>{{cite web |editor1-first=M. Paul |editor1-last=Lewis |editor2-first=Gary F. |editor2-last=Simons |editor3-first=Charles D. |editor3-last=Fennig |year=2015 |title=Liberia |website=[[Ethnologue]] |edition=18th |location=Dallas, Texas |publisher=SIL International |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/country/lr/languages}}</ref>
| languages = {{hlist|[[Liberian English]]}}
| ethnic_groups = {{unbulleted list
| 20.3% [[Kpelle people|Kpelle]]
| 13.4% [[Bassa people (Liberia)|Bassa]]
| 10% [[Grebo people|Grebo]]
| 8% [[Gio people|Gio]]
| 7.9% [[Mano people|Mano]]
| 6% [[Kru people|Kru]]
| 5.1% [[Loma people|Lorma]]
| 4.8% [[Kissi people|Kissi]]
| 4.4% [[Gola people|Gola]]
| 4% [[Krahn people|Krahn]]
| 4% [[Vai people|Vai]]
| 3.2% [[Mandinka people|Mandinka]]
|3% [[Gbandi people|Gbandi]]
|1.3% [[Mende people|Mende]]
|1.2% [[Sapo people|Sapo]]
|0.8% [[Belle people|Belle]]
|0.3% [[Dey people|Dey]]
|0.6% other Liberian
|1.4% other African
|0.1% non-African
}}
| ethnic_groups_year = 2008<ref name=CIA/>
| religion = {{ublist |item_style=white-space:nowrap;
|86.1% [[Christianity]]
|—76.3% [[Protestantism]]
|—8.2% [[Catholic Church in Liberia|Catholicism]]
|—1.6% Other [[List of Christian denominations|Christian]]
|12.2% [[Islam]]
|1.3% [[African traditional religion|Traditional faiths]]
|0.4% [[Irreligion|No religion]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalreligiousfutures.org/countries/liberia#/?affiliations_religion_id=0&affiliations_year=2010&region_name=All+Countries&restrictions_year=2015|title=Religions in Liberia - PEW-GRF|website=www.globalreligiousfutures.org|access-date=October 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106235755/http://www.globalreligiousfutures.org/countries/liberia#/?affiliations_religion_id=0&affiliations_year=2010&region_name=All+Countries&restrictions_year=2015|archive-date=November 6, 2018}}</ref>}}
| demonym = Liberian
| capital = [[Monrovia]]
| coordinates = {{Coord|6|19|N|10|48|W|type:city}}
| largest_city = Monrovia
| government_type = [[Unitary state|Unitary]] [[Presidential system|presidential]] [[republic|constitutional republic]]
| leader_title1 = [[President of Liberia|President]]
| leader_name1 = [[Joseph Boakai]]
| leader_title2 = [[Vice President of Liberia|Vice President]]
| leader_name2 = [[Jeremiah Koung]]
| leader_title3 = [[List of Speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia|Speaker of the House]]
| leader_name3 = Bhofal Chambers
| leader_title4 = [[Chief Justice of Liberia|Chief Justice]]
| leader_name4 = [[Francis Korkpor]]
| legislature = [[Legislature of Liberia]]
| upper_house = [[Senate (Liberia)|Senate]]
| lower_house = [[House of Representatives (Liberia)|House of Representatives]]
| area_rank = 102nd 
| area_km2 = 111,369
| area_sq_mi = 43,000 
| percent_water = 13.514
| population_estimate = 5,073,296<ref name=CIA>{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/li.html |title=Liberia |work=The Central Intelligence Agency side for Liberia |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |year=2019 |access-date=June 1, 2020 |archive-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831034011/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/li.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| population_estimate_year = 2015
| population_estimate_rank = 126th
| population_census = 3,476,608
| population_census_year = 2008
| population_census_rank =
| population_density_km2 = 40.43
| population_density_sq_mi = 92.0 
| population_density_rank = 180th
| GDP_PPP_year = 2019
| GDP_PPP = $6.468 billion
| GDP_PPP_per_capita = $1,413<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2019/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=42&pr.y=10&sy=2019&ey=2024&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=668&s=NGDPD,PPPGDP,NGDPDPC,PPPPC&grp=0&a=|title=Report for Selected Countries and Subjects|website=www.imf.org|access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref>
| GDP_nominal_year = 2019
| GDP_nominal = $3.221 billion
| GDP_nominal_per_capita = $704<ref name="auto"/>
| sovereignty_type = [[History of Liberia|Formation]] and [[Independence]] from [[American Colonization Society]]
| established_event1 = Settlement by the [[American Colonization Society|{{nowrap|American Colonization}} Society]]
| established_date1 = January 7, 1822
| established_event2 = [[Liberian Declaration of Independence]]
| established_date2 = July 26, 1847
| established_event3 = Annexation of [[Republic of Maryland]]
| established_date3 = March 18, 1857
| established_event4 = Recognition by the United States
| established_date4 = February 5, 1862
| established_event5 = [[United Nations Charter|Admitted to the]] [[United Nations]]
| established_date5 = November 2, 1945
| established_event6 = [[Constitution of Liberia|Current constitution]]
| established_date6 = January 6, 1986
| Gini_year = 2016
| Gini_change = 
| Gini = 35.3 
| Gini_ref = <ref name=gini-index>{{cite web|title=GINI index|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?locations=LR&name_desc=false|publisher=World Bank}}</ref>
| Gini_rank =
| HDI_year = 2019
| HDI_change = increase
| HDI = 0.480 
| HDI_ref = <ref name="UNHDR">{{cite book|title=Human Development Report 2020 The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene|date=15 December 2020|publisher=United Nations Development Programme|isbn=978-92-1-126442-5|pages=343–346|url=http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2020.pdf|access-date=16 December 2020}}</ref>
| HDI_rank = 175th
| currency = [[Liberian dollar]] (LRD)
| currency_code =
| utc_offset = {{sp}}
| time_zone = [[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]]
| drives_on = right
| calling_code = [[+231]]
| cctld = [[.lr]]
| today =
}}
The '''Republic of Liberia''' is a small country on the coast of West [[Africa]]. It has common borders with [[Sierra Leone]], [[Guinea]], and [[Ivory Coast]]. The country has a size of about {{Convert|520|km||abbr=}} by {{Convert|270|km||abbr=}}. As of 2021, there are about 5,000,000 people in Liberia. The capital city of Liberia is [[Monrovia]]. For ships, Liberia is a [[flag of convenience]].

== Geography ==
Liberia is a country in [[Southwest Africa]], on the coast of the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. Except for the coast, most of Liberia is low [[Mountain|mountains]], with an altitude of {{Convert|300|m||abbr=}} to {{Convert|500|m||abbr=}} above [[sea level]]. The coastal region is full of [[Swamp|swamps]], and reaches {{Convert|30|km||abbr=}} to {{Convert|50|km||abbr=}} inland. After that, there's a [[plateau]] at an altitude of about {{Convert|400|m||abbr=}}. About 60% of the country is covered with [[rainforest]]. To the north, there are higher mountains. There are nine big [[Plantation|plantations]] of [[rubber tree|rubber trees]], which are important for the [[economy]]. There are [[mangrove]] swamps near the coast. In 2019, estimates are that close to 5 million people live in Liberia. About half of them live in the capital, Monrovia. There are 15 administrative divisions, called counties. The main environmental issues in Liberia are that endangered species are hunted and eaten. This kind of meat is called bushmeat. Some of the poached animals are also sold to neighbouring countries. A big part of Liberia is rainforest. Like in other rainforest countries, [[Slash-and-burn]] agriculture is a problem. Illegal [[logging]] also is. In Monrovia, there is a lot of [[pollution]].

== History ==
In 1822, White [[Americans]] created the American Colonization Society and bought the land in Africa that would become Liberia. They did not want [[black people]] who were not [[Slavery in the United States|slaves]] to be in the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite book|first=David W.|last=Blight|title=Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory|year=2001|place=Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England|page=145|isbn=0-674-00819-7}}</ref> Because of this, they took some of them to Liberia. At the start of the [[American Civil War]] (in the 1860s) about 12,000 freed slaves lived in Liberia.

The name of the country means "Land of the Free" in [[Latin]]. Liberia gained its [[independence]] on July 26, 1847. [[Joseph Jenkins Roberts]] was the first president of Liberia. [[Europe|European]] countries were quick to recognize Liberia as a country. The United States did not recognize it as a countr until 1862. Many of the [[black people]] who were sent to Liberia were [[Missionary|missionaries]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=James D.|date=1996|title=Liberia's Ugly Past (Part I)|url=http://theperspective.org/uglypastI.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-28|website=The Perspective}}</ref> Its official language today is [[English language|English]] .

In the 1990s and in the early 2000s, two [[Liberia civil wars|civil wars]] badly affected the country.

The country's [[constitution]] is similar to that of the United States. In the 2017 elections, [[George Weah]] became the twenty-fifth [[President of Liberia]]. The [[President of Liberia|President]] before Weah was [[Ellen Johnson Sirleaf]], the first African female president.

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