Liberia is the African country founded by freed American slaves, capital Monrovia. Born in Liberia, the coast of Liberia, travel to Liberia.
The name is from the Latin for free, and the capital is named after an American president. The settlers and the peoples already living there never merged, and that division shaped the country's later civil wars.
1nounliberiaAfrican country founded by freed American slaves, capital Monrovia.
“Liberia lies on the West African coast, between Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast.”
liberia is a country.
Liberia comes from līber + -ia. The name was applied to the West African territory settled under the auspices of the American Colonization Society, from which the modern republic developed.
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