Gbarnga
Sign in to saveGbarnga is the capital city of Bong County, Liberia, lying north east of Monrovia. During the First Liberian Civil War, it was the base for Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia. Cuttington College, a private, Episcopal-affiliated institution, is located near the town. Its campus was once home to the Africana Museum, which was destroyed during the civil war.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 6 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Gbarnga is referenced by 58 other articles, and connects out to Köppen climate classification, United States and Liberia.
It sits within the topics Bong County, County capitals in Liberia and Gbarnga.
Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Gbarnga
- Region
- Bong County
- Country
- Liberia
- Population
- 86,031
- Timezone
- Africa/Monrovia
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Gbarnga
- Settlement.other_name
- Gbanga, Gbanka
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Liberia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Liberia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Liberia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Bong County
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2008
- Settlement.population_total
- 34046
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.population_blank2_title
- Religions
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- ±00:00
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 250
- Settlement.blank_name
- Climate
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Liberia
- Located in
- Bong County
- Population
- 34046
- Elevation
- 250
- Capital of
- Bong County
- Image
- Monrovia to Gbarnga highway.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- Baltimore
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Climate
- Places of worship
- Education
- References
Gbarnga is the capital city of Bong County, Liberia, lying north east of Monrovia. During the First Liberian Civil War, it was the base for Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia. Cuttington College, a private, Episcopal-affiliated institution, is located near the town. Its campus was once home to the Africana Museum, which was destroyed during the civil war.
As of the 2008 census, Gbarnga has a population of 34,046. Of this, 16,080 were male and 17,966 female; it is the fourth-most populous urban area in Liberia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gbarnga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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