Crossword clues for monrovia
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 13957
Land area (2000): 13.746069 sq. miles (35.602153 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.065354 sq. miles (0.169265 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 13.811423 sq. miles (35.771418 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48648
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 34.144156 N, 118.001848 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 91016
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Monrovia
Housing Units (2000): 245
Land area (2000): 0.885653 sq. miles (2.293830 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.885653 sq. miles (2.293830 sq. km)
FIPS code: 50580
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.579389 N, 86.480402 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 46157
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Monrovia
Wikipedia
Monrovia is the capital city of the West African country of Liberia.
Monrovia may also refer to:
Monrovia is the capital city of the West African country of Liberia. Located on the Atlantic Coast at Cape Mesurado, Monrovia had a population of 1,010,970 as of the 2008 census. With 29% of the total population of Liberia, Monrovia is the country's most populous city. From January 7, 1822 until the Liberian Declaration of Independence from the American Colonization Society on July 26, 1847 some 3,198 ex-Caribbean slaves settlers from the Lesser Antilles, who had escaped from their slaveholder or were born free, left the Caribbean islands and came to Liberia with the help and support of the American Colonization Society and other establishment organizations. The ex-Caribbean slaves came to Liberia to live a better life, to be free, and to establish self-governance. The first ex-Caribbean slaves who came to Liberia were from Barbados; some 500 to 1,000 ex-Caribbean slaves arrived in Liberia. The second group of settlers who came from the Caribbean islands were from Trinidad and Tobago; they were some 345 ex-Caribbean slaves, followed by some 620 ex-Caribbean slaves from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Another group of settlers, some 350 ex-Caribbean slaves, came from Saint Kitts and Nevis. The last two groups of settlers from the Caribbean islands were some 483 from Grenada and some 400 from Saint Lucia. As job opportunities and development growth increased, the ex-Caribbean slaves moved through Grand Cape Mount, Bomi County, Montserrado, Margibi County and other regions of Liberia to seek jobs and other opportunities.
Monrovia is Liberia's cultural, political and financial hub. The body that administers the government of Greater Monrovia District is the Monrovia City Corporation.
Founded on April 25, 1822, Monrovia was the second permanent Black American settlement in Africa after Freetown, Sierra Leone. Monrovia's economy is shaped primarily by its harbour and its role as the location of Liberia's government offices. It is the world's poorest city according to TheRichest.
Usage examples of "monrovia".
Hence, this explanation that Monrovia is a nonexistent country and Mungen a non-existent person.
In Africa, there were the ports of Lagos in Nigeria, and Monrovia in Liberia.
In a small nameless community on the northern outskirts of Monrovia, Elizabeth Lincoln, an elderly woman of eighty years, removed the white cloth from the kitchen table and draped it over her head for protection from the sun.
He was interrupted by the hooter of the little paddle steamer from Monrovia to Bathurst, which was coming through the gap in the bar.
They passed Liberia, the republic formed of liberated slaves, and of negroes from America, and brought up a mile or two off Monrovia, its capital.
The Sage of Monrovia who lived with posterity eternally in his thoughts was just about the only contestant left in the field, and the 19-year-old disciple-insearchofa-Messiah helped distribute the pamphlets on all the ships he worked on at a time when, while it was not against the law, you were through working for that line if the officers ever caught you.
Rapid fire now: about the Scruff and Jackie in Johannesburg or Monrovia and the hushed word throughout the illicit arms trade that something was going down at a New York airport this week so stay clear.
During her freshman and sophomore years at Monrovia High School, Leslie was one of the homecoming princesses.
We should be delighted if you would send some American warships to Monrovia and Freetown, and I hope by that time to have Dakar ready for your call.