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Maryland County is a county in the southeastern portion of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has two districts . Harper serves as the capital with the area of the county measuring 887 square miles (2,300 km 2 ). [ 2 ]
Maryland County highlighted in red. Maryland County elects two senators to the Senate of Liberia. It is currently represented by J. Gbleh-bo Brown and James P. Biney.
The Republic of Maryland (also known variously as the Independent State of Maryland, Maryland-in-Africa, and Maryland in Liberia) was a country in West Africa that existed from 1834 to 1857, when it was merged into what is now Liberia.
Location of Barrobo District in Maryland County. Barrobo District is a district of Liberia, one of the three located in Maryland County. Barrobo is the largest of the various Grebo sub-tribes in Maryland County, Republic of Liberia. In the days of tribal wars they fought surrounding tribes to secure a large portion of land.
Harper was the capital of the Republic of Maryland, an independent country (1834–1857), the last component of modern Liberia.. Cape Palmas, the region of which Harper is the center, is one of the traditional hometowns of the Americo-Liberians, descendants of free people of color and freed slaves from the United States who settled in Liberia and declared it an independent country in 1847.
Lofa County [d] 9 Margibi: Kakata: 304,946 1,010 sq mi (2,600 km 2) 4 1985 Montserrado County 10 Maryland: Harper: 172,202 886 sq mi (2,290 km 2) 2 1857 Maryland County [b] 11 Montserrado: Bensonville: 1,920,914 737 sq mi (1,910 km 2) 17 1839 Montserrado County [b] 12 Nimba: Sanniquellie: 621,841 4,459 sq mi (11,550 km 2) 6 1964 Nimba County [a ...
The Clans of Liberia were local political units created by the central government as part of its efforts to extend its authority and influence into the interior of the country. [ 7 ] As the tier of administrative government beneath the districts of Liberia , the clan structure only loosely corresponded to historic local political entities.
Maryland-3 is an electoral district for the elections to the House of Representatives of Liberia. It is located in a northern portion of Maryland County, bordering River Gee and Grand Kru counties, as well as the Ivory Coast. [3]