Key facts
- Country
- Liberia
- Capital
- Voinjama
- Superintendent
- George Dunor
- Total
- 9,982 km (3,854 sq mi)
- Density
- 36.80/km (95.32/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+0 (GMT)
- Hdi 2018
- 0.418 , low · 8th of 15
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county of Liberia
- Country
- Liberia
- Located in
- Liberia
- Capital
- Voinjama
- Population
- 270114
- Area
- 9978
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- topic's main category
- Category:Lofa County
- Commons category
- Lofa County
- inception
- 1964-00-00
- language used
- Bandi
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Encyclopedic overview
Lofa is a county in the northernmost portion of Liberia. One of 15 counties that constitute the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has nine districts. Voinjama serves as the capital with the area of the county measuring 3,854 square miles (9,980 km). As of the 2022 Census, it had a population of 367,376, making it Liberia's fourth most populous county.
Lofa's County Superintendent is William Tamba Kamba. The county is bordered by Bong County to the south and Gbarpolu County to the west. The northwestern parts of Lofa border the nation of Sierra Leone, and the northeastern parts border Guinea. Mount Wuteve, the highest mountain in Liberia, lies in the north-central part of the county.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lofa County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.