Country Details
About | Particulars | |
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Country Name | Sierra Leone |
National Flag |
Continent | Africa | |
Capital | Freetown | |
Country Abriviation [2] | SL | |
Country Abriviation [3] | SLE | |
ISO Numeric | 694 | |
Geo Name ID | 2403846 | |
ISD Code | +232 | |
Currency | Leone | |
Language Spoken | English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%) | |
Language [Code] | en-SL,men,tem | |
Area | 71,740 Km² |