SL · Curated travel guide
Mount Bintumani, Tiwai Island, Western Area Peninsula National Park and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Sierra Leone and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Highest mountain in Sierra Leone
The highest peak of Sierra Leone and of the Loma Mountains, where it stands, 1,945 metres (6,381 ft) high. Rainforest covers its lower slopes and shelters a wide range of wildlife.
Photo: Rokaso, CC BY-SA 4.0
UNESCO World Heritage Site
An island of 12 square kilometers on the Moa River, in Pujehun District, Southern Province, Sierra Leone: a wildlife sanctuary and tourist site run by the Environmental Foundation for Africa, a non-governmental organisation.
Photo: Stephanie Zito, CC BY-SA 1.0
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National park in Sierra Leone
Covering 183.37 km²: a national park protecting part of Sierra Leone.
Photo: Christian Trede( Chtrede ), Attribution
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Group of islands part of Sierra Leone
Islands off the coast of Yawri Bay, to the south-west of the Freetown Peninsula, in Sierra Leone's Western Area.
Photo: Christian Trede, Attribution
A historic Anglican church of the Church Mission Society in Freetown, Sierra Leone, once among the city's grandest churches and among the best attended.
Photo: danbjoseph @ Mapillary.com; changes by Rabanus Flavus, CC BY-SA 4.0
Place in Southern Province, Sierra Leone
An Atlantic island belonging to Bonthe District, Southern Province, Sierra Leone, cut off from the African mainland by the Sherbro River to the north and the Sherbro Strait to the east.
Photo: NASA, CC BY-SA 2.5
Port Loko, Sierra Leone
An island in the Sierra Leone River, in the estuary of Port Loko Creek and the Rokel River, about 20 miles upstream of Freetown, the capital.
Photo: Joseph Corry, Public domain
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Church in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Also called simply the Cathedral of Freetown, a Catholic church on Howe street in Freetown, the capital and most populous city of Sierra Leone, in Africa.
Photo: tommy001 @ Mapillary.com, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Building in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Where Sierra Leone's president officially lives, and where the president, the senior staff of the presidency and their aides have their offices.
Photo: The EITI, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Prison in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Commonly called Pademba Road Prison, a prison on Pademba Road in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Built before independence for 220 prisoners, it now holds around 2,000.
Photo: danbjoseph @ Mapillary.com, CC BY-SA 4.0
Officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, a country on West Africa's west coast, with Guinea to its north and Liberia to its southeast, covering 73,252 km² (28,283 sq mi) of land.
Officially The Republic of Sierra Leone.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Mount Bintumani, Tiwai Island, Western Area Peninsula National Park and Banana Islands and others.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Sierra Leone that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
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