Districts of Sierra Leone explained

The provinces of Sierra Leone are divided into 16 districts, as of July 2017.[1] [2] Previously, the country was divided into 14 districts. The Western Area is divided into two districts. Sierra Leone's capital Freetown is located in the Western Area of the country and its makes up the Western Area Urban District.

One traditional leader from each district occupies a seat in Sierra Leone's parliament. Each one of Sierra Leone's sixteen administrative districts (with the exception of the Western Area Urban District) is governed by a directly elected district council headed by a council chairman. The national capital Freetown, which makes up the Western Area Urban District, and the other is the Western Area Rural with a main town known as Waterloo, is governed by a directly elected city council headed by a mayor. The districts are further divided into a total of 190 (prior to 2017, 149) chiefdoms, whose elected leaders provided most of local government from 1896 to 2004, when they were supplemented by elected local councils.

List of districts

DistrictProvinceCapitalArea
km2
(2013)[3] 		Population
(2004
census)		Population
(2015
census)[4]
KailahunEasternKailahun3,859358,190526,379
KenemaEasternKenema6,053497,948609,891
KonoEasternKoidu Town5,641335,401506,100
BombaliNorthernMakeni7,895408,390606,544
FalabaNorthernBendugu205,353
KoinaduguNorthernKabala12,121265,758409,372
TonkoliliNorthernMagburaka7,003347,197531,435
KambiaNorth WestKambia3,108270,462345,474
KareneNorth WestKamakwie285,546
Port LokoNorth WestPort Loko5,719453,746615,376
BoSouthernBo5,219463,668575,478
BontheSouthernBonthe3,468139,687200,781
MoyambaSouthernMoyamba6,902260,910318,588
PujehunSouthernPujehun4,105228,392346,461
Western RuralWesternWaterloo544174,249444,270
Western UrbanWesternFreetown13772,8731,055,964

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Sierra Leone unveils new geographical map. Africa Review. 2018-02-01. en-UK. 2018-02-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20180221142807/http://www.africareview.com/news/Sierra-Leone-unveils-new-geographical-map/979180-4041036-4x8dfaz/index.html. dead.
  2. Web site: National Electoral Commission - Press Release. 6 September 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171114202122/http://necsl.org/index_files/2017_Press_Releases/Completed_RegistrationPressRelease2017.pdf. 14 November 2017. dead. 1 February 2018.
  3. http://www.geohive.com/cntry/sierraleone.aspx Sierra Leone at GeoHive
  4. Web site: 2015 Population and Housing Census Final Results. Statistics Sierra Leone. 6 July 2017. 15 September 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170915130124/https://www.statistics.sl/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/final-results_-2015_population_and_housing_census.pdf. dead.

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