Western Area Rural District
The Western Area Rural District is one of the sixteen districts of Sierra Leone. It is located mostly around the peninsula in the Western Area of Sierra Leone.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kerry Town and Benguema.
Kerry Town
Village
Kerry Town is a village in the Rural District in the Western Area of Sierra Leone. the town is located about 31 kilometres from the national capital, Freetown, which lies to the west-north-west.
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.
Western Area Rural District
- Type: State with 443,000 residents
- Description: district in Sierra Leone
- Categories: district of Sierra Leone and locality
- Location: Western Area, Sierra Leone, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
8.3075° or 8° 18′ 27″ north
Longitude
-13.0877° or 13° 5′ 16″ west
Population
443,000
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
Open location code
6CW88W46+XW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Western Area Rural District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الضاحية الغربية الريفية”
- Bulgarian: “Фрийтаун - селски район”
- Cebuano: “Western Area Rural”
- Chinese: “西部区郊区”
- Chinese: “西部區郊區”
- Dutch: “Western Area Rural”
- Finnish: “Läntisen alueen maaseutu”
- Finnish: “Läntisen alueen maaseutupiirikunta”
- German: “Western Area Rural”
- Greek: “Δυτική Αγροτική Επαρχία”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Pedesaan Wilayah Barat”
- Italian: “distretto rurale dell’Area Occidentale”
- Italian: “Distretto rurale dell’Area Occidentale”
- Italian: “Distretto rurale dellArea Occidentale”
- Japanese: “地方地区”
- Japanese: “西部地域ルーラル地区”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Western Area Rural District”
- Norwegian: “Western Area Rural District”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Wiejski Obszaru Zachodniego”
- Polish: “Western Area Rural District”
- Portuguese: “West Area Rural”
- Portuguese: “West Rural”
- Russian: “Сельский округ”
- Spanish: “Area rural de Freetown”
- Spanish: “Área rural de Freetown”
- Swedish: “Western Area Rural”
- Tumbuka: “Western Rural District”
- Ukrainian: “Сільський округ”
- Urdu: “مغربی علاقہ دیہی ضلع”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Jamat Farm and Chinese Quarry.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Benguema College and Benguema Market.
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