Western Area
The Western Area or Freetown Peninsula is one of five principal divisions of Sierra Leone. It comprises the oldest city and national capital Freetown and its surrounding towns and countryside.Photo: Ghassan Mroue, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Western Area Peninsula National Park and Hastings Airport.
Western Area Peninsula National Park
Nature reserve
Western Area Peninsula National Park is a protected area in Sierra Leone. It covers an area of 183.37 km2. Western Area Peninsula National Park is situated 6 km west of Western Area.
Hastings Airport
Aerodrome
Hastings Airport is an airport situated in Hastings, serving Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. Hastings Airport is situated 7 km north of Western Area.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Benguema.
Benguema
Neighborhood
Benguema is a military town in the Rural District in the Western Area of Sierra Leone, about 30 miles east of Freetown. Benguema is home to the Benguema Military Academy, the largest Sierra Leone military recruit training center. Benguema is situated 5 km east of Western Area.
Western Area
- Type: province of Sierra Leone with 1,450,000 residents
- Description: division of Sierra Leone
- Location: Sierra Leone, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Western Area” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المحافظة الغربية”
- Arabic: “المقاطعة الغربية”
- Belarusian: “Заходняя вобласць, Сьера-Леонэ”
- Belarusian: “Заходняя вобласць”
- Bengali: “পশ্চিমাঞ্চল, সিয়েরা লিওন”
- Bengali: “পশ্চিমাঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Западна област”
- Catalan: “Àrea Occidental”
- Catalan: “Western Area”
- Catalan: “Zona de l’Oest”
- Cebuano: “Western Area”
- Chinese: “西部区”
- Chinese: “西部區”
- Croatian: “Zapadna zona”
- Croatian: “Zapadno područje”
- Danish: “Vestområdet”
- Danish: “Western Area”
- Dutch: “Western”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Areo”
- Estonian: “Läänepiirkond”
- Finnish: “Läntinen alue”
- French: “Zone de l’Ouest”
- German: “SL-W”
- German: “Western Area”
- German: “Western”
- Greek: “Δυτική Περιφέρεια, Σιέρα Λεόνε”
- Greek: “Δυτική Περιφέρεια”
- Gujarati: “વેસ્ટર્ન એરિયા”
- Hindi: “पश्चिमी क्षेत्र”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Barat, Sierra Leone”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Barat”
- Italian: “Area occidentale della Sierra Leone”
- Italian: “Area Occidentale della Sierra Leone”
- Italian: “Area Occidentale”
- Japanese: “西部地域”
- Kannada: “ಪಾಶ್ಚಾತ್ಯ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “서부구”
- Latvian: “Rietumu apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų sritis”
- Malay: “Western Area”
- Marathi: “वेस्टर्न रिजन”
- Northern Frisian: “Western Area (Prowins uun Sierra Leone)”
- Northern Frisian: “Western Area”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestern”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Western”
- Norwegian: “Western”
- Persian: “ناحیه غربی”
- Polish: “Obszar Zachodni”
- Portuguese: “Área do Oeste”
- Portuguese: “Western Area”
- Portuguese: “Western”
- Romanian: “Provincia Western, Sierra Leone”
- Romanian: “Zona de Vest, Sierra Leone”
- Romanian: “Zona de Vest”
- Russian: “Западная область”
- Sinhala: “බටහිර ප්රදේශය, සියෙරා ලියෝන්”
- Sinhala: “බටහිර ප්රදේශය”
- Slovenian: “Western Area”
- Slovenian: “Zahodno območje”
- Spanish: “Area Occidental”
- Spanish: “Área Occidental”
- Swedish: “Freetown Peninsula”
- Swedish: “Western Area”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு ஏரியா”
- Tatar: “Көнбатыш өлкәсе”
- Telugu: “పశ్చిమ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “เวสเทิร์น เอเรีย”
- Turkish: “Western Area”
- Ukrainian: “Західна область”
- Ukrainian: “Західна територія”
- Urdu: “مغربی ریجن”
- Urdu: “مغربی علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Phía Tây”
- Western Armenian: “Արեւմտեան նահանգ”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Mongonbuh and Loko Fakai.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mount Horton and Sierra Leone Peninsula.
Sierra Leone: Must-Visit Destinations
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