{"id":25399,"date":"2024-07-27T08:18:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T02:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25399"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:53:00","slug":"liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Liberia:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> It is located along the coast of <strong>western Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the only state in Africa which was never subjected to colonial rule and is Africa\u2019s oldest republic.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Land Boundary:<\/strong> It is bounded by <strong>Sierra Leone<\/strong> to the northwest, <strong>Guinea<\/strong> to the north, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south and west.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Atlantic Ocean<\/strong> borders Liberia to the <strong>south-southwest.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has Cape Mount (about 1,000 feet in elevation) in the northwest, Cape Mesurado in Monrovia, and Cape Palmas in the southeast.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major Rivers:<\/strong> The <strong>Mano and Morro<\/strong> Rivers in the northwest and <strong>the Cavalla<\/strong> in the east and southeast are major rivers and form sections of Liberia\u2019s boundaries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Natural resources:<\/strong> It has natural resources like Iron diamonds, gold, lead, manganese, graphite, cyanite<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are flash floods?<\/h3>\n<p>Flash floods are sudden and rapid floods that occur within a short period, typically within hours of heavy rainfall or other intense water accumulation events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-climate\/liberia-relocate-monrovia-9469359\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why Liberia might relocate its capital city Monrovia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia  is located along the coast of western Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}