Kongo is a small town in Grand Cape Mount County,
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 Guinea–Liberia border, its north, Ivory Coast to Ivory Coast–Lib ...
, on the border with
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is . It has a tropical climate and envi ...
. It served an iron ore mine (the former National Iron Ore Company, Ltd. (NIOC)
[1]), with a
narrow gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum railw ...
, which are both currently out of use. There are similar iron ore deposits across the
Mano River which forms the border between the two countries.
See also
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Railway stations in Liberia
Railways in Liberia comprised two lines from the port of Monrovia in the northwest, and one line from the port of Buchanan in the centre. The lines were built between 1951 and 1964 principally to transport iron ore. All three lines closed down ...
References
https://liberiapastandpresent.org/ODP/IronOre/IronOreC.htm
Populated places in Liberia
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