Location: Africa
Capital: Freetown (470.000 inhab.)
Main Cities: Bo, Makeni, Kenema, Port Loko
Population: 4,850,000
Area: 71,740 km2
Coin: 1 leone = 100 cents
Languages: English, Krio
Religions: Animist, Moslem, Christian
The Independence's Year: 1961
Mountains: Loma Mansa (1948 m.)

Country of the western Africa between Guinea and Liberia, torn with civil wars that have prevented the start of every program of economic and social development since many years.
In this situation the state is very poor, the commercial balance marks heavy losses, the foreign indebtedness is very high, the annual inflation exceeds the 35%.
The population is in an extremely critical situation, one need only consider that of the almost 5 millions of inhabitants, the 64% is illiterate and the 68% lives in absolute poverty.

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