1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Liberia
Compare this sourced profile of Monrovia, Liberia before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Monrovia—1,542,549, Africa/Monrovia, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital city of Liberia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Monrovia is GeoNames ID 2274895. Its recorded administrative path is Montserrado County → Liberia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Monrovia occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-12-15; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Monrovia ranks 305 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Liberia entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 67. Its 1,542,549 population value is 1.00 times the 1,542,549 median for the country cohort and 1.71 times the 902,588 regional median. Monrovia is rank 1 among the 1 selected Liberia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Monrovia's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Monrovia's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Freetown at 362.523 km with 802,639 recorded people; Conakry at 479.786 km with 1,928,389 recorded people; Camayenne at 480.305 km with 1,871,242 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 117.782 km. Compared with Freetown, Monrovia's recorded population is 1.92 times as large. Against Monrovia, Freetown follows Western Area → Sierra Leone in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Sierra Leone cohort rather than Liberia, uses Africa/Freetown instead of Africa/Monrovia, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Monrovia's. Against Monrovia, Conakry follows Conakry Special Zone → Conakry → Guinea in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Guinea cohort rather than Liberia, uses Africa/Conakry instead of Africa/Monrovia, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Monrovia's. Against Monrovia, Camayenne follows Conakry → Guinea in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Guinea cohort rather than Liberia, uses Africa/Conakry instead of Africa/Monrovia, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Monrovia's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,149 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Monrovia's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2274895, the coordinate pair 6.3005 / 10.7969, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2409306 at 362.523 km bind Monrovia to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Monrovia's reference point is 6.3005° north and 10.7969° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Monrovia is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Monrovia's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Monrovia's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Monrovia's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Monrovia, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Monrovia's closest other entries in this atlas are Freetown (362.523 km), Conakry (479.786 km), Camayenne (480.305 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-12-15; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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