| Official Name: | Aberdeen, Sierra Leone |
| Pushpin Map: | Sierra Leone |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Sierra Leone |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Sierra Leone |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Western Area |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Western Area Urban District |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 8.5°N -30°W |
Aberdeen is a coastal neighborhood in the northwestern part of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown. It is home to numerous up-scale restaurants, hotels, nightclubs and other tourist facilities. Cape Sierra Leone is located at the northwestern end of the Sierra Leone Peninsula in Aberdeen. The white sandy Aberdeen-Lumley Beach stretches all the way from the cape down to neighbouring Lumley, along the western part of the peninsula. [1]
Aberdeen was founded in 1829 to provide accommodation for recaptives, liberated enslaved Africans, who had been brought to Freetown by the British Royal Navy West Africa Squadron.[2]