Republic+of+Liberia

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Official country name:
The Republic of Liberia.

Year that country joined the UN:
02-11-1945

People
Liberia- Liberian.
 * 1. What are the people from the country called (i.e Mali-malian, Spain-Spanish)**

The official language is English but there are other 29 African languages belonging to the Mande, Kwa or Mel linguistic groups.
 * 2. What is the official language? What other languages do people speak?**

There are three main religions: Christianity, Islam and indigenous beliefs.
 * 3. What is the most practiced religion?**

There are 4.1 million people in Liberia.
 * 4. How many people are there in the country?**

Goverment
The president is Ellen Jonhson Sirleaf, The vicepresident is Joseph Boakai and the chief justice johnnie Lewis.
 * 1. What is the name of the leader of the contry?**

Liberia has a presidential System. It is a system of Goverment in which the legislature and the executives branch are separate. The one who rules is the executive branch in which the head of the branch is the president.
 * 2. What type of goverment is the country ruled by?(i.e monarchy, democracy, dictatorship)**

There are 11 represented political parties: Congress for Democratic Change, Unity party, Coalition for the Transformation of Liberia, Liberty Party, Alliance for Peace and Democracy, National Reformation Party, National Patriotic Party, New Deal Movement, All Liberia Coalition Party, National Democratic Party of Liberia and United Democratic Alliance. There are also ten other unrepresented parties.
 * 3. What are the main political parties of the country?(i.e socialist party, communist party, green party, republicans, democratas, etc..)**

It was an North American colony. In 1847 the goverment of the United States gave Liberia their Independence.
 * 4. Was your country ever a colony? if so, when did it gain its independence?**

Nowadays it is suffering a civil war.
 * 5. Have Liberia Suffered any recently war?**

Geography
Liberia is located in West Africa; in the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
 * 1. Where is the country located?(i.e continent and region, for example Central Europe or North Africa)**

It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast.
 * 2. What other nations bordered the country?**

The landscape is characterized by seaside plains, one plateau and low-level elavations in the northeast.
 * 3. What kind of lanscape does the country have?**

Liberia have a tropical climate; in summer is very hot and dry but in the nights make fresher. Winters are wet and cloudy with a lot of precipitations.
 * 4. What type of climate does your country have?**

Economy
The most common sector of employment is the exportation of iron and cork.
 * 1. What is the most common sector of employment?(i.e bussines, agriculture and farming, goverment jobs etc..)**

The unemployment rate is of the 88%.
 * 2. What is the unemployment rate in your country. (by percentage)**

Liberia cannot give humanitarian aids because they owe about $3.2 billion.
 * 3. How much money does your country give to the humanitarian aids?**

The most surprising thing I learned about my country is:
The most surprising thing I learned is that in Liberia the percentage of unemployment rate is about 88% which is the majority of the population. Also an interesting thing is that nowadays they are suffering a civil war which is declining the economy of the country.