LIBERIA

liberia, a negro republic in west africa, extending along the coast of northern guinea about 300 m., between the british colony of sierra leone on the n.w. and the french colony of the ivory coast on the s.e. the westernmost point of liberia (at the mouth of the river mano) lies in about 6° 55 n. and 11° 32 w. the southernmost point of liberia, and at the same time almost its most eastern extension, is at the mouth of the cavalla, beyond cape palmas, only 4° 22 n. of the equator, and in about 7° 33 w. the width of liberia inland varies very considerably; it is greatest, about 200 m., from n.e. to s.w. the liberia-sierra leone boundary was determined by a frontier commission in 1903. commencing at the mouth of the river mano, it follows the mano up stream till that river cuts 10° 40 w. it then followed this line of longitude to its intersection with n. latitude 9° 6 , but by the franco-liberian understanding of 1907 the frontier on this side was withdrawn to 8° 25