Liberia

Facts

What the numbers say about Liberia

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 178× the size of Liberia.
• At 55 people per km², Liberia is the 114th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Liberia lies at 6°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Liberia's main territory stretches about 468 km north to south and 452 km east to west.
• Our measured 95,300 km² is 14% below Wikidata's official figure of 111,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

How Liberia measures up

Liberia holds 0.3% of the land area and 0.4% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Western Africa it is the 11th largest of 16.

Where Liberia sits

• Liberia's centre lies at 6.5°N, 9.3°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 720 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 4°N to 9°N, about 470 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Liberia had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Liberia would have 119.4 million people. It has 5.2 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Liberia would have 354,000 people. It has 5.2 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 6.9 million.

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