Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Monrovia
- Region
- Africa, Western Africa
- Population
- 5,731,206 (2025)
- Area
- 111,370 km²
- Currency
- Liberian dollar (LRD)
- Languages
- English
- Calling code
- +231
- Internet domain
- .lr
- ISO codes
- LR, LBR, 430
- Time zone
- UTC
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- #### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Liberia covers about 111,370 square kilometres. By area it ranks 105th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Honduras and a little larger than Bulgaria. It shares a land border with 3 neighbours: Ivory Coast, Guinea, Sierra Leone. Its centre lies at about 6° north, 10° west, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 5.73 million people live in Liberia (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 117th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 51 people to each square kilometre. About 56 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 62 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: English. A person from Liberia is called Liberian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Liberian dollar (code LRD, symbol $). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 5.25 billion (2025), which is about US$ 915 for each person (2025).
Time
Liberia uses one time zone, UTC (Africa/Monrovia). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Monrovia | 1,542,549 |
| Gbarnga | 86,031 |
| Buchanan | 75,854 |
| Ganta | 63,523 |
| Kakata | 52,247 |
| Zwedru | 38,269 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Western Africa
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.