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Definition of Liberian capital

1. Noun. The capital and chief port and largest city of Liberia.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Liberian Capital

Literary usage of Liberian capital

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Crime Or Custom?: Violence Against Women in Pakistan by Samya Burney, Human Rights Watch (Organization, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1999)
"... Nimba or have fled to other counties and Monrovia, the Liberian capital city, leaving large areas of the county deserted and the population depleted. ..."

2. Sweet Battlefields: Youth and the Liberian Civil War by Mats Utas (2003)
"Eventually entering the Liberian capital, Monrovia, on April 5 1996, our party found that the security situation had become precarious and in the event, ..."

3. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1886)
"... reach the United States within thirty-six hours after leaving the Liberian capital. A dispatch sent from the United States in time to catch the steamer ..."

4. A School History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1890: Combined by Edward Austin Johnson (1891)
"... United States has sent six Ministers to represent her at Monrovia, the Liberian capital, viz.: from North Carolina, Messrs. JH Smythe, Moses A. Hopkins, ..."

5. Human Rights Watch World Report 2005: The Events of 2004 by Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch (Organization (2005)
"... humanitarian law, was in August 2004 offered a safe haven by the Nigerian government when rebels threatened to take the Liberian capital Monrovia. ..."

6. Round the Black Man's Garden by Zélie Colvile (1893)
"... until at noon on the llth we anchored off Monrovia, the Liberian capital, a lovely spot situated on a high well-wooded promontory on the left bank of ..."

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