West Africa
Sierra Leone
Western Area

Freetown

Freetown is the capital city of 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.
Tap on a place
to explore it
fcc.gov.sl
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: David Hond, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
  • Type: City with 951,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Sierra Leone
  • Also known as: “Saint George”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Stadium and Sierra Leone Grammar School.

Stadium
Photo: Dorothy Voorhees, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Siaka Stevens , commonly known informally as the , is the of , located in the capital city of Freetown.

School
The was founded on 25 March 1845 in Freetown, , by the Church Mission Society, and at first was called the CMS Grammar School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aberdeen and Wilberforce.

Suburb
is a coastal neighborhood in the northwestern part of 's capital Freetown. It is home to numerous up-scale restaurants, hotels, nightclubs and other tourist facilities.

Suburb
is a neighborhood in Freetown, . It is home to the military barracks, one of the largest in the country and the main barracks of the Sierra Leone military.

Suburb
is a suburb in 's capital of Freetown. The Amputees and War Wounded Association is based here arising from the local camp for such people.

Freetown

Latitude
8.479° or 8° 28′ 44″ north
Longitude
-13.268° or 13° 16′ 5″ west
Population
951,000
Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)
IATA airport code
FNA
United Nations Location Code
SL FNA
Open location code
6CW8FPHJ+JR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565056
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2409306
Wiki­data ID
Q3780
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Freetown from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Freetown” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Freetown, Sierra Leone”
  • Albanian: “Fritaun”
  • Amharic: “ፍሪታውን”
  • Arabic: “فريتاون”
  • Arabic: “فريتون”
  • Aragonese: “Freetown”
  • Armenian: “Ֆրիթաուն”
  • Asturian: “Ciudá Llibre”
  • Asturian: “Freetown”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fritaun”
  • Balinese: “Freetown”
  • Bambara: “Freetown”
  • Basque: “Freetown”
  • Belarusian: “Фрытаўн”
  • Bengali: “ফ্রিটাউন”
  • Bishnupriya: “ফ্রিটাউন”
  • Bosnian: “Freetown”
  • Breton: “Freetown”
  • Bulgarian: “Фрийтаун”
  • Catalan: “Freetown”
  • Cebuano: “Freetown (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Freetown”
  • Central Kurdish: “فریتاون”
  • Chechen: “Фритаун”
  • Chinese: “Freetown”
  • Chinese: “弗里敦”
  • Chinese: “自由城”
  • Chinese: “自由市”
  • Croatian: “Freetown”
  • Czech: “Freetown”
  • Danish: “Freetown”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Freetown”
  • Dutch: “Freetown”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فريتاون”
  • Esperanto: “Fritaŭno”
  • Estonian: “Freetown”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Freetown”
  • Finnish: “Freetown”
  • French: “Freetown”
  • Fulah: “Firiton”
  • Ga: “Freetown”
  • Galician: “Freetown”
  • Georgian: “ფრითაუნი”
  • Georgian: “ფრიტაუნი”
  • German: “Freetown”
  • Greek: “Φρίταουν”
  • Gujarati: “ફ્રીટાઉન”
  • Haitian: “Fritonn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Freetown”
  • Hausa: “Freetown”
  • Hebrew: “פריטאון”
  • Hindi: “फ़्रीटाउन”
  • Hungarian: “Freetown”
  • Icelandic: “Freetown”
  • Ido: “Freetown”
  • Inari Sami: “Freetown”
  • Indonesian: “Freetown”
  • Interlingua: “Freetown”
  • Interlingue: “Freetown”
  • Irish: “Freetown”
  • Italian: “Freetown”
  • Japanese: “フリータウン”
  • Javanese: “Freetown”
  • Kabiyè: “Fritawnɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Freetown”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ರೀಟೌನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Фритаун”
  • Kirghiz: “Фритаун”
  • Komering: “Freetown”
  • Kongo: “Freetown”
  • Korean: “프리타운”
  • Kotava: “Freetown”
  • Kurdish: “Freetown”
  • Latin: “Libera Urbs”
  • Latin: “Urbs Libera”
  • Latvian: “Frītauna”
  • Ligurian: “Freetown (Sierra Lion)”
  • Ligurian: “Freetown”
  • Limburgan: “Freetown”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Freetown”
  • Lithuanian: “Fritaunas”
  • Livvi: “Fritaun”
  • Lombard: “Freetown”
  • Luxembourgish: “Freetown”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Freetown”
  • Macedonian: “Фритаун”
  • Malagasy: “Freetown”
  • Malay: “Freetown”
  • Malayalam: “ഫ്രീടൗൺ”
  • Marathi: “फ्रीटाउन”
  • Mazanderani: “فری تاؤن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Freetown”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Freetown”
  • Minangkabau: “Freetown”
  • Mingrelian: “ფრიტაუნი”
  • Moksha: “Фритаун”
  • Mongolian: “Фритаун”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “فريطاون”
  • N'Ko: “ߝߌ߬ߙߌߕߐ߲߬”
  • N'Ko: “ߝߙߌߕߊ߲߫ߏ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Freetown”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Freetown”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Freetown”
  • Norwegian: “Freetown”
  • Novial: “Freetown”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Freetown”
  • Ossetian: “Фритаун”
  • Panjabi: “ਫ਼ਰੀਟਾਊਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Freetown”
  • Persian: “فری‌تاون”
  • Piemontese: “Freetown”
  • Polish: “Freetown”
  • Portuguese: “Freetown”
  • Pushto: “فری ټاون”
  • Romanian: “Freetown”
  • Russian: “Фритаун”
  • Sardinian: “Freetown”
  • Scots: “Freetown”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Freetown”
  • Serbian: “Фритаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Freetown”
  • Shona: “Freetown”
  • Sicilian: “Freetown”
  • Silesian: “Freetown”
  • Sindhi: “فري ٽائون”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්‍රීටවුන්”
  • Slovak: “Freetown”
  • Slovenian: “Freetown”
  • Somali: “Freetown”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فریتوون”
  • Spanish: “Freetown”
  • Swahili: “Freetown”
  • Swedish: “Freetown”
  • Tagalog: “Freetown”
  • Tajik: “Фритаун”
  • Talysh: “Fritaun”
  • Tamil: “ஃப்ரீடவுன்”
  • Tamil: “பிரீடவுன்”
  • Tamil: “பிரீநகரம்”
  • Telugu: “ప్రీటౌన్”
  • Thai: “ฟรีทาวน์”
  • Tibetan: “ཕིརི་ཊའུན།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Freetaun”
  • Tok Pisin: “Freetown”
  • Tswana: “Freetown”
  • Turkish: “Freetown”
  • Turkmen: “Fritaun”
  • Udmurt: “Фритаун”
  • Ukrainian: “Фрітаун”
  • Urdu: “فری ٹاؤن”
  • Uzbek: “Fritaun”
  • Venetian: “Freetown”
  • Veps: “Fritaun”
  • Vietnamese: “Freetown”
  • Volapük: “Freetown”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Freetown”
  • Welsh: “Freetown”
  • Western Frisian: “Freetown”
  • Western Mari: “Фритаун”
  • Western Panjabi: “فری ٹاؤن”
  • Wu Chinese: “弗里敦”
  • Yiddish: “פריטאון”
  • Yiddish: “פֿריטאון”
  • Yoruba: “Freetown”
  • Yue Chinese: “Freetown”
  • Zulu: “i-Freetown”
  • “Freetown”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Freetown”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Lower Pipe Line and Docoty.

Sierra Leone: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Kenema, Bo, Makeni, and Koidu.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Freetown”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.