Geographical position: Sierra Leone is located in Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea and Liberia.
The country’s climate is tropical; hot, humid; summer rainy season (May to December); winter dry season (December to April).
Languages: 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%).
Freetown is the capital of Sierra Leone.
Surface: 71,740 sq km
Population: 6,017,643
System of government: constitutional democracy
Capital: Freetown
Religion: Muslim 60%, indigenous beliefs 30%, Christian 10%
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