1 Amsterdam Island, French Southern Territories, 11,547 mi. 2  Bantam, Cocos Islands, 11,126 mi. 3  Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia, 10,957 mi. 4  Carnarvon, Western Australia, Australia, 10,949 mi.  Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia, 10,914 mi.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is stepping down after two terms as Africaâs first democratically elected female president. The National Election Commission announced on Friday that Mr. Weah had won with 61.5 percent of the vote.
Liberia, which means land of the free, was founded by free African-Americans and freed slaves from the United States in 1820. An initial group of 86 immigrants, who came to be called Americo-Liberians, established a settlement in Christopolis (now Monrovia, named after U.S. President James Monroe) on February 6, 1820.