Chocolate City is a central-northern suburb of

Monrovia Monrovia () is the capital city of the West African country of Liberia. Founded in 1822, it is located on Cape Mesurado on the Atlantic coast and as of the 2008 census had 1,010,970 residents, home to 29% of Liberia’s total population. As the ...

Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...

. It is located in the

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. Chocolate City contains the

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and

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. During the

Second Liberian Civil War The Second Liberian Civil War was a conflict in the West African nation of Liberia lasted from 1999 to 2003. It was preceded by the First Liberian Civil War, which ended in 1996. President Charles Taylor came to power in 1997 after victory in t ...

in 1999–2003, the area was war torn, and "rape, murder and plunder" happened every night in Chocolate City. Hundreds of thousands of refugees hid in churches, schools and houses and many thousands died. Chocolate City contains two communities, Chocolate City A and Chocolate City B. As of 2014 the population of Chocolate City A was estimated at 5,961 and the population of Chocolate City B at 6,025.Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services.
Population 2008, 2014 by County, District, Clan and Households, Liberia
' Chocolate City A and Chocolate City B are part of the

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electoral district.National Electoral Commission.
Montserrado County Electoral District No.13 2017
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