Liberia

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
LR
ISO alpha-3
LBR
ISO numeric
430
FIPS 10-4
LI
GeoNames ID
2275384

Key facts

Capital
Monrovia
Area
111,370 km²
Population
4,818,977
Currency
Dollar (LRD)
Calling code
+231
Top-level domain
.lr
Official languages
en-LR

Continent

Name
Africa
Code
AF
In this dataset
58 countries

Africa in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
6.5
Longitude
-9.5
Min latitude
4.3472354190000715
Min longitude
-11.476185675999943
Max latitude
8.565395609000063
Max longitude
-7.384118204999936

Boundary

Liberia

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/LR?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 111370,
    "capital": "Monrovia",
    "continent_code": "AF",
    "currency_code": "LRD",
    "iso3_code": "LBR",
    "iso_code": "LR",
    "name": "Liberia",
    "population": 4818977
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/LR/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=LR
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=LR
  • /v1/timezones?country=LR
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Name in other languages

Arabic
ليبيريا
Chinese
利比里亚
English
Liberia
French
Liberia
German
Liberia
Hindi
लाइबेरिया
Italian
Liberia
Japanese
リベリア
Korean
라이베리아
Portuguese
Libéria
Russian
Либерия
Spanish
Liberia
Total language variants
139

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
Africa/Monrovia UTC+00:00 UTC+00:00

Postal code format

Format
####
Pattern
^(\d{4})$

First-level administrative regions

  • Montserrado County
  • Nimba County
  • Lofa County
  • Bong County
  • Grand Bassa County
  • Margibi County
  • Grand Gedeh County
  • Maryland County
  • Grand Cape Mount County
  • Sinoe County
  • Bomi County
  • Gbarpolu County
  • River Cess County
  • River Gee County
  • Grand Kru County

15 of 15 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
Monrovia 1,542,549
Gbarnga 86,031
Buchanan 75,854
Ganta 63,523
Kakata 52,247
Zwedru 38,269
Harbel 38,208
Harper 35,503
Pleebo City 35,423
Foya Kamara 31,052

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
6,325
First-level regions
15
Postal codes
0
Name languages
139
Boundary polygon
Yes

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