Place:Grand Cape Mount, Liberia

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NameGrand Cape Mount
Alt namesGrand Cape Mountsource: Wikipedia
TypeCounty
Coordinates7.083°N 10.833°W
Located inLiberia
Contained Places
District
Commonwealth
Garwula
Gola Konneh
Porkpa
Tewor
Inhabited place
Bindaja
Robertsport
Tubmanburg
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Grand Cape Mount is a county in the northwestern portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that constitute the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has five districts. Robertsport serves as the capital with the area of the county measuring .[1] As of the 2008 Census, it had a population of 129,817, making it the eighth most populous county in Liberia.[1] The county is bordered by Gbarpolu County to the northeast and Bomi County to the southeast. The northern part of Grand Cape Mount borders the nation of Sierra Leone, while to the west lies the Atlantic Ocean.

The name of the county comes from Cape du Mont, a French word meaning the Cape of the Mount. In 1461, Pedro de Sintra, a Portuguese explorer charting the West Coast of Africa, saw the prominent feature of the cape and chose its name.

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