Liberie

Liberie (), offeecially the Republic o Liberie, is a kintra on the wast coast o Africae, bordered bi Sierra Leone, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, an the Atlantic Ocean. As o the 2008 Census, the naition is hame tae 3,476,608 fowk an covers 111,369 square kilometres (43,000 sq mi).

Liberie's caipital is Monrovia. Liberie haes a het equatorial climate wi maist rainfall arrivin in the rainy saison wi hersh harmattan winds in the dry saison. Liberie's populated Pepper Coast is componed o maistly mangrove forests while the spairsely populatit inland is forestit, later openin tae a plateau o drier grasslands.

 Etymology 
The name Liberie denotes "liberty". The newly arrived settlers formed a new ethnic group cried the Americo-Liberians. Housomeivver, this introduction o a new ethnic mix resultit in ethnic tensions wi the saxteen ither main ethnicities awready residin in Liberie.
Frae the 16t century till 1822, European splorers an traders haed multiple names for Liberie, varyin bi leid.

Durin the spice trade, in non-Inglis speakin Europe, Liberiae wis cawed the Malaguetta Coast or Pepper Coast in Inglis. It earned its name frae the melegueta pepper foond in rural Liberie that wis dubbed the "Grains o paradise" syne it wis a rare spice in heich demand throughoot continental Europe. In late 18t century Inglis splorers referred tae the kintra as the Windward Coast acause o notoriously unnavigable, choppy waters aff the coast o Cape Palmas at the tip o Soothren Liberie that wur difficult for European ships tae sail throu.

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Category:Kintras in Africae
Category:African Union member states
Category:Kintras borderin the Atlantic Ocean
Category:Economic Community o Wast African States
Category:Inglis-speakin kintras an territories
Category:Least Developed Kintras
Category:1847 establishments
Category:Reparations for slavery
Category:States an territories established in the 1840s
Category:1840s establishments in Africae