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The second largest ethnic group in Sierra Leone is the Mende at 31.2% of Sierra Leone's population. [2] The Mende predominate in the Southern Province and Eastern Sierra Leone (with the exception of Kono District). The Mende are a Muslim majority group, though with a large Christian minority.
The demographics of Sierra Leone are made up of an indigenous population from 18 ethnic groups. The Temne in the north and the Mende in the south are the largest. About 60,000 are Krio, the descendants of freed slaves who returned to Sierra Leone from Great Britain, North America and slave ships captured on the high seas.
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The Mende are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone; their neighbours, the Temne people, constitute the largest ethnic group at 35.5% of the total population, which is slightly larger than the Mende at 31.2%.
Most of Sierra Leone's ethnic groups are Muslim majority, including the country's two largest ethnic groups: the Mende and Temne. Sierra Leone is regarded as one of the most religiously tolerant countries in the world.
The Limba people are an ethnic group in Sierra Leone.They represent 12.4% of the total population, making them the third largest ethnic group in Sierra Leone. [1] [2] The Limba are based in the north of the country across seven provinces, but are predominantly found in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone.
Temne people's approx. geographic concentration in Sierra Leone. [4] Female figure, probably Temne People, Sierra Leon, early 19th century CE. Sculpture. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. The Temne people constitute one of the largest ethnic groups of Sierra Leone.
The Sierra Leone Creole people (Krio: Krio pipul) are an ethnic group of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Creole people are descendants of freed African-American , Afro-Caribbean , and Liberated African slaves who settled in the Western Area of Sierra Leone between 1787 and about 1885.