africa • SLE
Sierra Leone
Location marker · geographic overview
8.5° N / 11.5° WTHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Freetown
- Population
- 8,642,022 2024
- Area
- 71,740 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- English
- Currency
- Leone (SLE)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is on the West Coast of Africa.
Landscape & landmarks
The beaches of the Freetown peninsula are spectacular, and on an average day, deserted. There are at least ten that could be described as world-class.Read the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
The main staple of Sierra Leonean food is rice, often accompanied by soup, i.e., stews. These stews may include a delicious and often spicy mix of meat, fish, seasonings, greens, etc., often taking hours to prepare. There are plenty of good quality restaurants offering a variety of local and international dishes.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-08-08. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Western Africa
- Calling code
- +232
- Internet domain
- .sl
- Land border codes
- GIN, LBR
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .sl. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.