TCHIEN

also called Zwedru, town, southeastern Liberia. Tchien has expanded into an important administrative, marketing, and traffic centre. It is surrounded by rubber plantations and diamond mines; cattle are abundant. Rubber, coffee, cocoa, piassava, sugarcane, tobacco, and citrus fruits are collected there from the surrounding region. Industries produce leather goods, beverages, paints, soap, and building materials. Tchien is connected by road with the port of Greenville on the Atlantic coast. Pop. (1974) 6,094.