Population is about 7,813,215 people, the 102nd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.1 per cent of everyone alive.
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Sierra Leone
Republic of Sierra Leone
Africa
ยท Western Africa
0Population
71.74Kkmยฒ of land
$527GDP / person
FreetownCapital
- ISO codes
- SL ยท SLE
- Density
- 109 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- Sierra Leonean leone (SLE)
- Dial code
- +232
- Internet domain
- .sl
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 8.6170ยฐ N, 11.7640ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Sierra Leonean
- UN region
- Western Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $4.12B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How Sierra Leone stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
102nd
of 242 ยท 0.10% of world population
Land area
120th
of 242 ยท 0.05% of world land
GDP per person
229th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
95th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Sierra Leone
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 71,740 kmยฒ, making it the 120th largest country here - about 7.8 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 109 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Freetown, at 8.47ยฐ N, 13.24ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 827,000.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Guinea and Liberia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Freetown.
The currency is the Sierra Leonean leone (SLE, symbol Le).
The official language is English.
Dials on +232 and uses the .sl internet domain.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Freetown
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UTC+00:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Freetown
Western
8.4720ยฐ N, 13.2362ยฐ W
827K
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Sierra Leone.