About Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa, one of the 54 countries of Africa on GlobeQuizz. Its full official name is Republic of Sierra Leone. In Arabic, the name is written سيراليون, and the capital فريتاون. Its geographic centre lies in the Northern and Western hemispheres.
The capital of Sierra Leone is Freetown. Freetown lies at about 8° north and 13° west. The official language of Sierra Leone is English. Its currency is the Sierra Leonean Leone, with the symbol Le and the international code SLE.
Sierra Leone covers about 71,740 square kilometres, which puts it 117th by area among the 195 countries on GlobeQuizz. It shares land borders with 2 countries: Guinea and Liberia. The largest of these neighbours by area is Guinea. Other countries in West Africa include Niger, Mali, and Mauritania. To practise flags, capitals and currencies, play the Africa quiz on GlobeQuizz, which mixes Sierra Leone with the other countries of the same region.