Coordinates: 8°30′N 11°30′W / 8.500°N 11.500°W
Republic o Sierra Leone | |
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Motto: "Unity, Freedom, Justice" | |
![]() Location o Sierra Leone (daurk blue) – in Africae (licht blue & daurk gray) | |
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Caipital and largest city | Freetown 8°29.067′N 13°14.067′W / 8.484450°N 13.234450°W |
Offeecial leids | Inglis[1] |
Spoken leids |
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Ethnic groups (2008) |
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Demonym(s) | Sierra Leonean |
Govrenment | Unitar presidential constitutional republic |
• Preses | Julius Maada Bio |
• Vice-Preses | Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh |
• Speaker o Pairlament | Abass Chernor Bundu |
• Chief Juistice | Desmond Babatunde Edwards |
Legislatur | Pairlament |
Unthirldom | |
• frae the Unitit Kinrick | 27 Apryle 1961 |
• Republic declared | 19 Apryle 1971 |
Aurie | |
• Total | 71,840 km2 (27,740 sq mi) (119th) |
• Water (%) | 1.1 |
Population | |
• 2015 census | 7,075,641[2] |
• Density | 79.4/km2 (205.6/sq mi) (114ta) |
GDP (PPP) | 2017 estimate |
• Total | $11.551 billion[3] |
• Per capita | $1,760[3] |
GDP (nominal) | 2017 estimate |
• Tot | $4.088 billion[3] |
• Per capita | $623[3] |
Gini (2011) | 35.4[4] medium |
HDI (2015) | ![]() law · 179t |
Currency | Leone (SLL) |
Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
Drivin side | richtb |
Cawin code | +232 |
ISO 3166 code | SL |
Internet TLD | .sl |
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Sierra Leone (Krio: Sa Lone), offeecially the Republic o Sierra Leone, is a kintra in wast Africae. It is bordered bi Guinea tae the north an east, Liberie tae the sootheast, an the Atlantic Ocean tae the wast an soothwast. Sierra Leone covers a total aurie o 71,740 km2 (27,699 sq mi) an haes a population estimatit at 6.5 million.