Countries

Liberia

Liberia lies on West Africa's Atlantic coast between Sierra Leone, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire. Settled from 1822 by freed Black Americans, it became independent in 1847, and it rebuilt after two civil wars that ended in 2003.

Rooftops of Monrovia spreading between green hills and the Atlantic shore, Liberia

Monrovia, on the Atlantic

Photo: blk24ga, CC BY 3.0

Modelled on the United States flag: eleven stripes for the signers of Liberia's declaration of independence, and a single white star for the first independent republic in Africa.

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