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Maryland County is a county in the southeastern portion of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has two districts . Harper serves as the capital with the area of the county measuring 887 square miles (2,300 km 2 ). [ 2 ]
Each county flag bears the national flag of Liberia in the canton. The county flags are flown at regional offices and together encircling the national flag of Liberia at the Executive Mansion. The flags were introduced in 1965 by William Tubman for the purpose of promoting the counties as meaningful entities. [19]
The Republic of Maryland (also known variously as the Independent State of Maryland, Maryland-in-Africa, and Maryland in Liberia) was a country in West Africa that existed from 1834 to 1857, when it was merged into what is now Liberia.
Lofa County [d] 9 Margibi: Kakata: 304,946 1,010 sq mi (2,600 km 2) 4 1985 Montserrado County 10 Maryland: Harper: 172,202 886 sq mi (2,290 km 2) 2 1857 Maryland County [b] 11 Montserrado: Bensonville: 1,920,914 737 sq mi (1,910 km 2) 17 1839 Montserrado County [b] 12 Nimba: Sanniquellie: 621,841 4,459 sq mi (11,550 km 2) 6 1964 Nimba County [a ...
Flag of the Republic of Maryland. On May 29, 1854, The State of Maryland declared its independence, naming itself the Republic of Maryland, or Maryland in Liberia, [17] with its capital at Harper. It held the land along the coast between the Grand Cess and San Pedro Rivers. However, the new republic would survive just three years as an ...
Harper was the capital of the Republic of Maryland, an independent country (1834–1857), the last component of modern Liberia.. Cape Palmas, the region of which Harper is the center, is one of the traditional hometowns of the Americo-Liberians, descendants of free people of color and freed slaves from the United States who settled in Liberia and declared it an independent country in 1847.
Liberia, [a] officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and southwest. It has a population of around 5.5 million and covers an area of 43,000 square miles (111,369 km 2). The ...
Some Estonian county flags features the green and white background with the coat of arms of the county. Subdivision flags were not always ubiquitous. Many country subdivisions went decades without a flag, until a certain event or an independence or a formation of the country to adopt a creation of the flag.