Kongo

Demographic figures from LISGIS Liberia. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Kongo is a small town in Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia, on the border with Sierra Leone. It served an iron ore mine, with a narrow gauge railway, which are both currently out of use. There are similar iron ore deposits across the Mano River which forms the border between the two countries.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Nearby places in Liberia

• loleu
  197.4 mi away
• Binao
  253.5 mi away
• Belleville
  295.8 mi away
• Adjékro
  402.7 mi away
• Khossanto
  405 mi away
• Blé
  419.5 mi away
• Kimini
  474.8 mi away
• San
  510.7 mi away
• Diangobo
  520.7 mi away
• Bouko
  531.6 mi away
• Bouroudji
  538 mi away
• Doro
  538.1 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Kongo

Histoire de l’Afrique noire, d’hier à demain

Joseph Ki-Zerbo · 1972

Africa

Henry M. Stanley · 1898

Afrika--Stagnation oder Neubeginn?

Paul Kevenhörster · 1996

Into Africa

Marq De Villiers · 1999

Amnesty International Report 2012

Amnesty International · 2012

Geschichte Afrikas

Walter Schicho · 2011

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Western Bearded-Greenbul

Criniger barbatus

Seen 2023-02-26

African Woolly-necked Stork

Ciconia microscelis

Seen 2023-02-26

African Forest-Flycatcher

Fraseria ocreata

Seen 2023-02-26

Blue-billed Malimbe

Malimbus nitens

Seen 2023-02-26

Stream junglewatcher

Neodythemis klingi

Seen 2023-02-26

Copper-tailed Starling

Hylopsar cupreocauda

Seen 2023-02-26

Variable Sunbird

Cinnyris venustus

Seen 2023-02-26

Square-tailed Sawwing

Psalidoprocne nitens

Seen 2023-02-26

Bank Swallow

Riparia riparia

Seen 2023-02-26

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).