Sierra Leone
Coordinates: 8°30′N 11°30′W / 8.500°N 11.500°W
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.
Republic o Sierra Leone | |
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Motto: "Unity, Freedom, Justice" | |
Location o Sierra Leone (daurk blue) – in Africae (licht blue & daurk gray) | |
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 | |
Ethnic groups (2008) | |
Demonym(s) | Sierra Leonean |
Govrenment | Unitar presidential constitutional republic |
• Preses | Julius Maada Bio |
Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh | |
Abass Chernor Bundu | |
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) | 0.420[5] 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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References
eedit- ↑ "The World Factbook". www.cia.gov. Archived frae the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
- ↑ Official projection (medium variant) for the year 2013 based on the population and housing census held in Sierra Leone on 4 December 2004 Archived 2013-07-30 at the Wayback Machine. statistics.sl. page 13.
- ↑ a b c d "Sierra Leone". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 18 Apryle 2013.
- ↑ "Gini Index". World Bank. Retrieved 2 Mairch 2011.
- ↑ "2016 Human Development Report" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2016. Retrieved 21 Mairch 2017.
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