Key facts
- Country
- Sierra Leone
- Capital
- Freetown
- Total
- 696 km (269 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,830/km (4,730/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC0 ( Greenwich Mean Time )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Western Area or Freetown Peninsula (formerly the Colony of Sierra Leone) is one of five principal divisions of Sierra Leone. It comprises the oldest city and national capital Freetown and its surrounding towns and countryside. It covers an area of 696 square kilometres (269 sq mi) and has a population of 1,271,330 in 2021. The Western Area is located mostly around the peninsula and is divided into two districts: the Western Area Rural and the Western Area Urban.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Western Area” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.