Map of Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 8.5° N, 11.5° W. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Guinea and Liberia — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Sierra Leone is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Sierra Leone shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Sierra Leone covers about 71,740 km² (27,699 sq mi). That makes it the 117th-largest country in the world by area and the 40th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 14 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 9,077,691, the 101st-largest in the world and the 33rd-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.6% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Sierra Leone has an average population density of about 127 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 33rd by population and 40th by area.

The seat of government is Freetown, and the official currency is the Leone (SLE, Le), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC.

Sierra Leone carries the ISO country codes SL and SLE, dials on the international calling code +232 and uses the .sl internet domain.

Sierra Leone shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Guinea (capital Conakry, about 14,363,931 people) and Liberia (capital Monrovia, about 5,248,621 people).

By area, Sierra Leone is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 8.5° N, 11.5° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Sierra Leone within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Freetown. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Sierra Leone lies about 944 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Sierra Leone keeps a single standard time zone, UTC. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +00:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Leone (SLE, Le).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +232 and websites commonly use the .sl internet domain.

In short, Sierra Leone is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Freetown. Sierra Leone has a population of about 9,077,691 and covers around 71,740 km² (27,699 sq mi), ranking it 101st in the world by population and 117th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Sierra Leone.

The flag of Sierra Leone is composed of three equal horizontal bands of green, white and blue.

The flag of Sierra Leone is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.