Zorzor is the second largest city in Lofa County

Lofa County

Lofa is a county in the northernmost portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has six districts. Voinjama serves as the capital with the area of the county measuring...

, Liberia

Liberia

Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...

. Located near Liberia's capital of Monrovia

Monrovia

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, it is a local trade center for agricultural products such as rice

Rice

Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima . As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and the West Indies...

, cassava

Cassava

Cassava , also called yuca or manioc, a woody shrub of the Euphorbiaceae native to South America, is extensively cultivated as an annual crop in tropical and subtropical regions for its edible starchy tuberous root, a major source of carbohydrates...

, pineapples, palm oil

Palm oil

Palm oil, coconut oil and palm kernel oil are edible plant oils derived from the fruits of palm trees. Palm oil is extracted from the pulp of the fruit of the oil palm Elaeis guineensis; palm kernel oil is derived from the kernel of the oil palm and coconut oil is derived from the kernel of the...

, and palm kernels. Zorzor's major ethinc groups include the Kpelle

Kpelle

The Kpelle people are located primarily in an area of central Liberia extending into Guinea. They speak the Kpelle language, which belongs to the Mande language family....

 and Loma

Loma

Loma may refer to:* Loma, Colorado, USA* Loma, Montana, USA* Loma, Nebraska, USA* Loma, North Dakota, USA* The Loma people, of Guinea and Liberia** The Loma language spoken by the Loma* Loma Mountains, a mountain range in Sierra Leone...

 peoples. The town also contains an American Lutheran church hospital, a leper colony

Leper colony

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, and a handicrafts workshop. The Zozor Rural Teacher Training institute is located in the nearby town of Fisebu.

Zorzor's population as of the latest census was 4,752.