Gbarnga

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title: "Gbarnga" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["gbarnga", "bong-county", "county-capitals-in-liberia", "populated-places-in-liberia"] topic_path: "general/gbarnga" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gbarnga" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Gbarnga is the capital city of Bong County, Liberia, lying north east of Monrovia. During the First Liberian Civil War, it was the base for Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia. Cuttington College, a private, Episcopal-affiliated institution, is located near the town. Its campus was once home to the Africana Museum, which was destroyed during the civil war.

As of the 2008 census, Gbarnga has a population of 34,046. Of this, 16,080 were male and 17,966 female; it is the fourth-most populous urban area in Liberia.

Gbarnga is the hometown of Tamba Hali, a former professional football player for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League in the United States.

The town is twinned with Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States.

Climate

Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as tropical monsoon (Am). Its climate is similar to the capital Monrovia, but less rainy and with cooler night temperatures.

|metric first=yes |single line=yes |location=Gbarnga |Jan high C=32.1 |Feb high C=33.1 |Mar high C=32.5 |Apr high C=32.3 |May high C=31.3 |Jun high C=30.4 |Jul high C=29.1 |Aug high C=28.1 |Sep high C=29.8 |Oct high C=31.1 |Nov high C=31.3 |Dec high C=31.5

|Jan mean C=25.1 |Feb mean C=25.2 |Mar mean C=25.3 |Apr mean C=25.7 |May mean C=25.3 |Jun mean C=24.8 |Jul mean C=24.1 |Aug mean C=23.2 |Sep mean C=24.5 |Oct mean C=25.5 |Nov mean C=25.8 |Dec mean C=25.1

|Jan low C=18.1 |Feb low C=17.4 |Mar low C=18.1 |Apr low C=19.1 |May low C=19.3 |Jun low C=19.2 |Jul low C=19.2 |Aug low C=18.3 |Sep low C=19.2 |Oct low C=20 |Nov low C=20.3 |Dec low C=18.7

|Jan precipitation mm=20 |Feb precipitation mm=61 |Mar precipitation mm=150 |Apr precipitation mm=179 |May precipitation mm=194 |Jun precipitation mm=216 |Jul precipitation mm=221 |Aug precipitation mm=204 |Sep precipitation mm=384 |Oct precipitation mm=236 |Nov precipitation mm=110 |Dec precipitation mm=38

|source 1 = Climate-Data.org, altitude: 250m

Places of worship

Education

References

References

  2. Stephen Ellis, The Mask of Anarchy
  3. (June 2008). "2008 National Population and Housing Census: Preliminary Results". Government of the Republic of Liberia.
  4. "Baltimore City Mayor's Office of International and Immigrant Affairs - Sister Cities Program".
  5. "Climate: Gbarnga - Climate graph, Temperature graph, Climate table". Climate-Data.org.

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