Nimba County - Demographics

Demographics

Nimba County is inhabited predominantly by two ethnic groups—the Mán speaking people and the Dán speaking people. The Mandingos or Malinky or Manding people, who were late arrivers in the region, make up the third group but are in smaller number than either one of the two major groups. The Mán and Dán people are very closely interrelated. They also share a common history that is traceable mythologically to a common father but different mothers. Also in Nimba County are two minority group of people namely, the Krahn of Kparblee and the Bassa of Gbi and Doru Administrative Districts. The Krahn are situated along the Cestos River which border Liberia with the Ivory Coast. According to the history of the Krahn, they and the Gio tribe have inter-marriage relationship this also occurred in the Ivory Coast where these two group of people just migrated from before settling here in Liberia.

In 2005, the very high price of iron ore is seeing a lot of interest in reopening the mines and rebuilding the standard gauge railway to the port of Buchanan.