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Sierra Leone, [a] officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is 73,252 km 2 (28,283 sq mi). [11] It has a tropical climate and environments ranging from savannas to rainforests.
Sierra Leone first became inhabited by indigenous African peoples at least 2,500 years ago. The Limba were the first tribe known to inhabit Sierra Leone. The dense tropical rainforest partially isolated the region from other West African cultures, and it became a refuge for peoples escaping violence.
Location of Sierra Leone The flag of Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone (/ s i ˌ ɛr ə l i ˈ oʊ n (i)/ ⓘ, also UK: / s i ˌ ɛər ə-/, US: / ˌ s ɪər ə-/; Krio: Salone), officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north.
Freetown (Krio: Fritɔun) is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. . Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and political centre, as it is the seat of the Government of Sierra
Though historians have noted that information on the day-to-day lives of the liberated Africans living in Sierra Leone is scarce, registers of Africans liberated by the British, letters written to the governor of Sierra Leone and other sources have allowed modern historians to reconstruct the daily lives of liberated Africans. [2]
Sierra Leone – sovereign country located in West Africa. [1] Sierra Leone is bordered by Guinea in the northeast, Liberia in the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean in the southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of 71,740 km 2 (27,699 sq mi) [ 2 ] and has a population of 5,900,000.
Sierra Leone is located at approximately , between the 7th and 10th parallels north of the equator It is bordered by Guinea to the north and northeast, and Liberia to the south and southeast. [ 5 ] The country has a total area of 73,252 km 2 (28,283 sq mi), divided into a land area of 73,132 km 2 (28,236 sq mi) and water of 120 km 2 (46 sq mi).
Sierra Leone is a member of the United Nations and its specialized agencies, the Commonwealth, the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Development Bank (AFDB), the Mano River Union (MRU), the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).