Source: Assessment Capacities Project
Country: Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone covers an area of 71,740 km2 , approximately the size of Ireland. It borders Guinea in the north and northeast, and Liberia in the east and southeast.
The Atlantic coastline stretches about 340 km. Administratively, the country is divided into three provinces – Northern, Southern, Eastern – and one territory, the Western Area, where the capital Freetown is located. The Northern province is the largest, at 35,000km2 and the Western Area the smallest, at only 557km2 , although it is the most densely populated, with 1.4 million people. Each province is divided into districts (12 in total) and each district is subdivided into chiefdoms (150 in total).