Map of Liberia

Liberia is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 6.5° N, 9.5° W. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea and Sierra Leone — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Liberia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Liberia shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Liberia covers about 111,369 km² (43,000 sq mi). That makes it the 102nd-largest country in the world by area and the 39th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 15 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 5,248,621, the 125th-largest in the world and the 38th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.4% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Liberia has an average population density of about 47 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 38th by population and 39th by area.

The seat of government is Monrovia, and the official currency is the Liberian dollar (LRD, $), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC.

Liberia carries the ISO country codes LR and LBR, dials on the international calling code +231 and uses the .lr internet domain.

Liberia shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Cote d'Ivoire (capital Yamoussoukro, about 31,719,275 people), Guinea (capital Conakry, about 14,363,931 people) and Sierra Leone (capital Freetown, about 9,077,691 people).

By area, Liberia is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 6.5° N, 9.5° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Liberia within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Monrovia. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Liberia lies about 722 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Liberia keeps a single standard time zone, UTC. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +00:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Liberian dollar (LRD, $).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +231 and websites commonly use the .lr internet domain.

In short, Liberia is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Monrovia. Liberia has a population of about 5,248,621 and covers around 111,369 km² (43,000 sq mi), ranking it 125th in the world by population and 102nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Liberia.

The flag of Liberia is composed of eleven equal horizontal bands of red alternating with white. A blue square bearing a five-pointed white star is superimposed in the canton.

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