Sierra Leone
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- SL
- ISO alpha-3
- SLE
- ISO numeric
- 694
- FIPS 10-4
- SL
- GeoNames ID
- 2403846
Key facts
- Capital
- Freetown
- Area
- 71,740 km²
- Population
- 7,650,154
- Currency
- Leone (SLE)
- Calling code
- +232
- Top-level domain
- .sl
- Official languages
- en-SL,men,tem
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 8.5
- Longitude
- -11.5
- Min latitude
- 6.919419664000088
- Min longitude
- -13.30109615799995
- Max latitude
- 9.996005961000066
- Max longitude
- -10.282235879999888
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/SL?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 71740,
"capital": "Freetown",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "SLE",
"iso3_code": "SLE",
"iso_code": "SL",
"name": "Sierra Leone",
"population": 7650154
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/SL/regions/v1/cities?country=SL/v1/postal-codes?country=SL/v1/timezones?country=SL
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- سيراليون
- Chinese
- 塞拉利昂
- English
- Sierra Leone
- French
- Sierra Leone
- German
- Sierra Leone
- Hindi
- सीएरा लिओन
- Italian
- Sierra Leone
- Japanese
- シエラレオネ
- Korean
- 시에라리온
- Portuguese
- Serra Leoa
- Russian
- Сьерра-Леоне
- Spanish
- Sierra Leona
- Total language variants
- 136
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Freetown | UTC+00:00 | UTC+00:00 |
First-level administrative regions
- Eastern Province
- Southern Province
- Northern Province
- Western Area
- North West Province
5 of 5 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Freetown | 802,639 |
| Kenema | 255,110 |
| Bo | 233,684 |
| Koidu | 128,030 |
| Makeni | 85,116 |
| Waterloo | 55,000 |
| Port Loko | 44,900 |
| Njala | 40,000 |
| Lunsar | 22,461 |
| Goderich | 19,209 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 14,401
- First-level regions
- 5
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 136
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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