Mount Wuteve, the highest mountain in Liberia, lies in the north-central part of the county.

Many people left the area as refugees in 1999 and the early 2000s as it became a main focus of fighting during the Liberian civil war.

The Red Cross said that in January 2004, many people had begun to return from refugee camps in neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Lofa produced one of the nation's most respected leaders in the late vice president Dr. Harry F. Moniba who served from 1984 to 1990.

[7] The Western part of the county has coastal plains that rise to a height of 30 m (98 ft) above the sea-level inward to a distance of 25 km (16 mi).

Rice and cassava interplanted with Sugarcane are the major crops grown in the region.

[8] Lofa County has a community forest, the Bluyeama, occupying an area of 44,444 ha (109,820 acres).

The number of cocoa plantations was 11250, 29.1 percent of the total area of cassava planted in the country.

The number of rubber plantations was 810, 1.3 percent of the total area of cassava planted in the country.

The number of coffee plantations was 11,000, 49.3 percent of the total area of cassava planted in the country.

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