Liberia
i//, officially the
Republic of Liberia, is a country in
West Africa bordered by
Sierra Leone to its west,
Guinea to its north and
Ivory Coast to its east. It covers an area of
111,369 square kilometres (43,000 sq mi) and is home to about 3.7 million
people.
English is
the official language and over thirty indigenous languages are also spoken
within the country. Its coastline is composed mostly of
mangroves, while its more sparsely populated inland
consists of forests opening onto a plateau of drier grasslands. The climate is
hot and
equatorial, with significant
rainfall during the May–October
rainy season and harsh
harmattan winds the remainder of the year. The
country possesses about forty percent of the remaining
Upper Guinean
rainforest.
More at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia
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