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NXS-GRX-LBR · Western Africa · Regions

Liberia: 15 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 15 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Map All units Country map
Page GRX-LBR-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO LBR / LRStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
15
first-level units
151
units at 2 levels
5,132,831
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01نقشہ

Liberia by province, state and territory

15 first-level units and 136 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 15 first-level units of Liberia
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Liberia

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
15 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · each with its own page
ADM2
136 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · each with its own page
03Units

All 15 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit کوڈ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Bomi LR-BM 109,582 145,135 1,917 57 2.1% 487
Bong LR-BG 444,668 502,427 8,741 51 8.7% 0
Gbarpolu LR-GP 120,654 92,417 9,881 12 2.4% 0
Grand Bassa LR-GB 295,460 302,492 7,884 37 5.8% 55,844
Grand Cape Mount LR-CM 195,026 181,744 4,747 41 3.8% 4,623
Grand Gedeh LR-GG 218,091 241,201 10,780 20 4.2% 0
Grand Kru LR-GK 57,219 113,935 3,869 15 1.1% 6,018
Lofa LR-LO 440,265 400,174 9,913 44 8.6% 0
Margibi LR-MG 322,232 449,723 2,567 126 6.3% 54,814
Maryland LR-MY 225,148 179,302 2,282 99 4.4% 25,762
Montserrado LR-MO 1,681,022 1,597,332 1,865 901 32.8% 905,745
Nimba LR-NI 656,692 659,033 11,476 57 12.8% 0
River Gee LR-RI 109,989 143,713 5,078 22 2.1% 0
Rivercess LR-RG 114,038 89,968 5,556 21 2.2% 6,281
Sinoe LR-SI 142,745 142,554 9,704 15 2.8% 15,256
04خطرہ

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Liberia publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05ماخذات

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen LBR ADM1, source: UNMIL, OCHA ROWCA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2021
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen LBR ADM2, source: UNMIL, OCHA ROWCA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2021
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
ممالک
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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Avis en français

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