Dixville is a township in
Greater Monrovia District
Greater Monrovia is one of four districts located in Montserrado County, Liberia. It contains the country's capital Monrovia. It recorded a population of 970,824 in the 2008 census.
Greater Monrovia has no official administrative status. Unlike ot ...
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Montserrado County
Montserrado County is a county in the northwestern portion of the West African nation of Liberia containing its national capital, Monrovia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has 17 sub p ...
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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 ...
. The Dixville township was one of five townships founded in the second wave of colonization, between 1828 and 1847 (when Liberia was declared an independent state).
Government
In 2018 President
George Weah
George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah (; born 1 October 1966) is a Liberian politician and former professional footballer who is the incumbent president of Liberia, in office since 2018. Prior to his election to the presidency, Weah served a ...
appointed Comfort W. Taylor as Commissioner for Dixville.
[Executive Mansion. ]
President Weah Makes further Appointments in Government
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Dixville is part of the
Montserrado-11
Montserrado-11 is an electoral district for the elections to the House of Representatives of Liberia
The House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the bicameral legislative branch of Liberia, and together with the Senate comprises the ...
electoral district.
[National Electoral Commission. ]
Montserrado County Electoral District No.11 2017
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Demographics
Dixville township is divided into two communities;
[Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services. ]
Population 2008, 2014 by County, District, Clan and Households, Liberia
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References
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City corporations, townships and borough of the Greater Monrovia District