Monrovia
Monrovia is the capital, and with a population of around 1.6 million, also the largest city in Liberia. The city center is the image of a tropical capital, melting in the hot sun.Photo: whiteafrican, CC BY 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Liberian National Museum
Museum
The National Museum of Liberia is a national museum in Monrovia, Liberia.
Antoinette Tubman Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Antoinette Tubman Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Monrovia, Liberia.
Vatican Embassy
Government office
The Apostolic Nunciature to Liberia is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Liberia.
Localities in the Area
West Point
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Point is a township of the Liberian capital city of Monrovia, located on a 0.53 km2 peninsula which juts out into the Atlantic Ocean between the Mesurado and Saint Paul rivers.
Clara Town
Suburb
Clara Town is a slum located on Bushrod Island in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.
Monrovia
- Type: City with 1,010,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Liberia
- Categories: port settlement, capital city, big city and locality
- Location: Montserrado County, Liberia, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
6.328° or 6° 19' 41" northLongitude
-10.7978° or 10° 47' 52" westPopulation
1,010,000Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)Named after
MonroviaIATA airport code
MLWUnited Nations Location Code
LR MLWOpen Location Code
6CRF86H2+6VOpenStreetMap ID
node 27564980OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2274895Wikidata ID
Q3748Monrovia Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Monrovia
- Afrikaans: Monrovia
- Albanian: Monrovia
- Amharic: ሞንሮቪያ
- Arabic: Monrovia
- Arabic: مونروفيا
- Aragonese: Monrovia
- Armenian: Մոնրովիա
- Asturian: Monrovia
- Avaric: Monrovia
- Azerbaijani: Monroviya
- Balinese: Monrovia
- Bambara: Mɔnrovia
- Basque: Monrovia
- Belarusian: Манровія
- Bengali: মনরোভিয়া
- Bengali: মোনরোভিয়া
- Bosnian: Monrovia
- Breton: Monrovia
- Bulgarian: Монровия
- Catalan: Monròvia
- Cebuano: Monrovia (ulohang dakbayan)
- Cebuano: Monrovia
- Central Bikol: Monrovia
- Central Kurdish: مۆنرۆڤیا
- Chechen: Монрови
- Chinese: Monrovia
- Chinese: 蒙罗维亚
- Chinese: 蒙羅維亞
- Cornish: Monrovia
- Croatian: Monrovia
- Czech: Monrovia
- Danish: Monrovia
- Dimli (individual language): Monrovia
- Dutch: Monrovia
- Egyptian Arabic: مدينه مونروفيا
- Egyptian Arabic: مونروفيا
- Esperanto: Monrovio
- Estonian: Monrovia
- Ewe: Monrovia
- Fiji Hindi: Monrovia
- Finnish: Monrovia
- French: Monrovia
- Fulah: Monrovia
- Galician: Monrovia
- Georgian: მონროვია
- German: Monrovia
- Greek: Μονρόβια
- Guarani: Monrovia
- Gujarati: મોનરોવિઆ
- Haitian: Monrovia
- Haitian: Monwovya
- Hakka Chinese: Monrovia
- Hausa: Monrovia
- Hebrew: מונרוביה
- Hindi: मोनरोविया
- Hungarian: Monrovia
- Icelandic: Monróvía
- Ido: Monrovia
- Inari Sami: Monrovia
- Indonesian: Monrovia
- Interlingua: Monrovia
- Interlingue: Monrovia
- Irish: Monrovia
- Italian: Monrovia
- Japanese: モンロビア
- Javanese: Monrovia
- Kabiyè: Monrooviya
- Kabyle: Monrovia
- Kannada: ಮೊನ್ರೋವಿಯಾ
- Kazakh: Монровия
- Kazakh: Монровия қаласы
- Kikuyu: Monrovia
- Kirghiz: Монровия
- Kongo: Monrovia
- Korean: 몬로비아
- Kotava: Monrovia
- Kurdish: Monrovia
- Latin: Monrovia
- Latvian: Monrovija
- Ligurian: Monròvvia
- Lingua Franca Nova: Monrovia
- Lithuanian: Monrovija
- Livvi: Monrouvii
- Lombard: Monrovia
- Luxembourgish: Monrovia
- Macedo-Romanian: Monrovia
- Macedonian: Монровија
- Malay: Monrovia
- Malayalam: മൺറോവിയ
- Marathi: मोन्रोव्हिया
- Mazanderani: مونروویا
- Min Dong Chinese: Monrovia
- Min Nan Chinese: Monrovia
- Mingrelian: მონროვია
- Moksha: Монровия
- Mongolian: Монрови
- Moroccan Arabic: مونروڤيا
- N'Ko: ߟߌߓߋߙߌߦߊ߫ ߞߎߓߋߘߊ
- N'Ko: ߡߏ߲ߙߏߝ߭ߌ߬ߦߊ߫
- N'Ko: ߡߏ߲߬ߙߏߝ߭ߌ߬ߦߊ߫
- N'Ko: ߤߙߐߘߎ߯ ߞߎߓߋߘߊ
- Northern Frisian: Monrovia
- Northern Sami: Monrovia
- Norwegian: Monrovia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Monrovia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Monrovia
- Novial: Monrovia
- Occitan (post 1500): Monròvia
- Ossetian: Монрови
- Panjabi: ਮੋਨਰੋਵੀਆ
- Papiamento: Monrovia
- Persian: مونروویا
- Piemontese: Monrovia
- Polish: Monrovia
- Polish: Monrowia
- Portuguese: Monrovia
- Portuguese: Monróvia
- Pushto: مونروویا
- Quechua: Munruwya
- Romanian: Monrovia
- Russian: Монровия
- Sardinian: Monròvia
- Scots: Monrovia
- Scottish Gaelic: Monrovia
- Serbian: Монровија
- Serbo-Croatian: Monrovia
- Shona: Monrovia
- Sicilian: Monrovia
- Silesian: Monrovia
- Sinhala: මොන්රෝවියා
- Skolt Sami: Monrovia
- Slovak: Monrovia
- Slovenian: Monrovija
- Somali: Monrofia
- South Azerbaijani: مانروویا
- Spanish: Monrovia
- Swahili: Monrovia
- Swedish: Monrovia
- Tagalog: Monrovia
- Tajik: Монровия
- Tamil: மன்ரோவியா
- Tamil: மொன்ரோவியா
- Tamil: மொன்றோவியா
- Telugu: మన్రోవియా
- Thai: มอนโรเวีย
- Thai: มันโรเวีย
- Tibetan: མོང་རོ་ཝི་ཡ།
- Turkish: Monrovia
- Turkmen: Monrowiýa
- Udmurt: Монровия
- Ukrainian: Монровія
- Urdu: مونروویا
- Uzbek: Monroviya
- Venetian: Monrovia
- Veps: Monrovii
- Vietnamese: Monrovia
- Volapük: Monrovia
- Võro: Monrovia
- Waray (Philippines): Monrovia
- Welsh: Monrovia
- Western Frisian: Monrovia
- Western Mari: Монрови
- Western Panjabi: مونروویا
- Wu Chinese: 蒙罗维亚
- Yiddish: מאנראוויע
- Yoruba: Monrovia
- Yue Chinese: 蒙羅維亞
Other Places Named Monrovia
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