Sierra Leone Country Info - Africa

Description and Basic Information

Sierra Leone with its capital Freetown is located in Africa (Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean). It covers some 71,741 square kilometres (slightly smaller than South Carolina) with 6,286,000 citizens. English and are the the languages spoken by people in Sierra Leone. It is charing borders with Liberia and Guinea.

Sierra Leone is on the West Coast of Africa between 7 and 10 degrees N, and longitudes 10.5 and 13 degrees W. The Republic of Guinea is to the north and northeast; Liberia is to the east and southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean on the west and south. Run the Kiln Sierra Leone Marathon - on the 9th June 2012 come to the beautiful countryside of Makeni to run either a marathon, half marathon or 5k in aid of Street Child of Sierra Leone.

Pictures from Capital (Freetown)

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About Sierra Leone

The topography features coastal belt of mangrove swamps, wooded hill country, upland plateau, mountains in east. The average density of population is about 87 per km². The climate in Sierra Leone can be described as tropical with hot, humid, summer rainy season (May to December), winter dry season (December to April). Potential natural disasters are dry, sand-laden harmattan winds blow from the Sahara (December to February) or sandstorms, dust storms.

To reach someone in Sierra Leone dial +232 prior to a number. There are 32,800 installed telephones. And there are 1,160,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900, 1800 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".sl". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 230V - 50Hz. The following list are the 4 regions/states in Sierra Leone we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Sierra Leonean population grew at a rate of 2.22% (or by 116,245 citizens). With 62,791 deaths and 203,481 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 2.68%. -24,445 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Sierra Leone: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

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Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.