National Stadium
The Siaka Stevens National Stadium, commonly known informally as the National Stadium, is the national stadium of Sierra Leone, located in the capital city of Freetown.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stadium
- Description: multi-use national stadium of Sierra Leone
- Also known as: “National Stadium (Sierra Leone)” and “Siaka Stevens Stadium”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Museum and Cotton Tree.
National Museum
Museum
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The Sierra Leone National Museum, previously known as the Sierra Leone Museum and the Museum of the Sierra Leone Society, is the national museum of Sierra Leone. it is located at the junction of Siaka Stevens Street and Pademba Road in central Freetown. National Museum is situated 1½ km northeast of National Stadium.
Cotton Tree
Photo: Chtrede, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
The Cotton Tree is a kapok tree that is a historic symbol of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. The Cotton Tree gained importance in 1792 when a group of formerly enslaved African Americans, who had gained their freedom by fighting for the British during the American Revolutionary War, settled the site of modern Freetown. Cotton Tree is situated 1½ km northeast of National Stadium.
Freetown Central Prison
Prison
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Freetown Central Prison, commonly known as Pademba Road Prison, is a prison on Pademba Road in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The prison was built to house 220 prisoners in the pre-independence era and now holds around 2,000 prisoners. Freetown Central Prison is situated 1½ km east of National Stadium.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wilberforce and Tower Hill.
Wilberforce
Suburb
Wilberforce is a neighborhood in the West End of Freetown, Sierra Leone. It is home to the Wilberforce military barracks, one of the largest in the country and the main barracks of the Sierra Leone military.
Tower Hill
Suburb
Tower Hill is an affluent government and residential neighborhood in central Freetown, Sierra Leone. Tower Hill is located within the central business district in downtown Freetown.
Freetown
Freetown is the capital city of Sierra Leone and is the heart of the Western region, with around a million inhabitants. It is on a peninsula on the south bank of the estuary of the Sierra Leone River.
National Stadium
- Categories: recreation area, sports location, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Western Area, Sierra Leone, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
8.4796° or 8° 28′ 47″ northLongitude
-13.24906° or 13° 14′ 57″ westElevation
29 metres (95 feet)Inception
1979Open location code
6CW8FQH2+R9OpenStreetMap ID
way 28429017OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=stadiumOpenStreetMap feature
sport=multi
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“National Stadium” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الملعب الوطني”
- Arabic: “ملعب سياكا ستيفنز”
- Arabic: “ملعب وطني (سيراليون”
- Arabic: “ملعب وطني”
- Catalan: “Estadi Nacional de Sierra Leone”
- Dutch: “Nationaal Stadion (Sierra Leone)”
- Dutch: “Nationaal Stadion”
- Dutch: “National Stadium”
- French: “Brookfields National Stadium”
- French: “Siaka Stevens Stadium”
- German: “National-Stadion”
- German: “Siaka Stevens Stadion”
- Greek: “Εθνικό Στάδιο στη Σιέρα Λεόνε”
- Greek: “Εθνικό Στάδιο”
- Indonesian: “Stadion Nasional”
- Italian: “National Stadium”
- Japanese: “フリータウン・ナショナル・スタジアム”
- Persian: “ورزشگاه ملی سیرالئون”
- Polish: “Stadion Narodowy”
- Polish: “Stadion Siaki Stevensa”
- Russian: “Национальный стадион (Сьерра-Леоне)”
- Russian: “Национальный стадион”
- Spanish: “Estadio Nacional de Sierra Leona”
- Swahili: “Uwanja wa Taifa (Sierra Leone)”
- Swahili: “Uwanja wa Taifa”
- Vietnamese: “Sân vận động Quốc gia (Sierra Leone)”
- Vietnamese: “Sân vận động Quốc gia”
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