LIBERIA

Liberia

Liberia is a country of West Africa, giving on the Atlantic Ocean.

The relief of Liberia consists of  a maritime frontage  of approximately 600 km length; the coastal band alternates flat cultivated and rain forest. The interior of the grounds is dominated by a series of  plates  and immense  tropical forests.

The population of Liberia is made up of two principal ethniques groups:  the people autochtones  (95 % of the population) and  theBast ones  (of the descendants of freed slaves come from the United States to  the xix ^E century). Close to two thirds of inhabitants to Liberia are  animists  (belief according to which the animals and the objects have a heart), approximately 30 % are Moslem and 10 % are Christian.

Liberia is equipped with a significant hydrographic network, mining resources (iron, but, diamond) and agricultural (plantations of hévéas). Thus, before the release  of the civil war  in 1989, the country had developed an economy based on the production and the export of  raw materials  and basic commodities. But the conflict almost entirely destroyed its economy, which depends from now on on the international assistance.

Liberia
Population	3,19 million inhabitants in 2007
Capital	Monrovia (550 200 inhabitants in 2003)
Surface	99 067 km²
Official language	English
Currency	bast dollar

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