Freetown

Freetown is the capital city of Sierra Leone and is the heart of the Western region, with well over a million inhabitants. It is on a peninsula on the south bank of the estuary of the Sierra Leone River. Wikivoyage

Population 951,000 (Wikidata)

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Before you go

Emergency numbers in Sierra Leone

• 019PolicePolice
• 999AmbulanceAmbulance
• 999FireFire

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Sierra Leone

Getting there

Where are you starting from?

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

• National Museum Museum · 490 m
• The Cotton Tree Attraction · 510 m

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Somewhere to run

• Belia Park 480 m across 1.5 km

Getting around

• buses to kanema 880 m
• Government Wharf Ferry Terminal 970 m
• Shared Taxi Station 2.8 km
• Kissi Ferry Terminal 3.3 km
• Seabird Feetown Terminal 3.6 km
• Melian Tours 4.1 km

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