page_title: New Kru Town
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: New Kru Town / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Map showing the city corporations, townships and borough of the Greater Monrovia District. Borders are approximate.
context_page_description: New Kru Town is a northwestern coastal suburb of Monrovia, Liberia located on the north end of Bushrod Island. It is the only borough in Liberia.
  The town grew as a planned "transplant" town of Old Kru Town after World War II when "Old Kru Town was evacuated for the development of a new breakwater for the new port with assistance from the Liberian government". Being located on the corner of the Atlantic Ocean and the Saint Paul River estuary, fishing is an important source of income.
  A slum area, it has been subject to ethnic tension.
context_section_description: New Kru Town (or Zone Z100) is divided into 14 communities;
caption: New Kru Town within the Greater Monrovia District
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