Western Area · Sierra Leone
Freetown population
802,639people · latest figure
Freetown has a population of 802,639, making it the 1st largest place we list in Sierra Leone. It is in Western Area.
Freetown holds 8.9% of Sierra Leone's 8,996,745 people. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 802,639, almost unchanged.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Kenema | Eastern Province | 255,110 |
| Bo | Southern Province | 233,684 |
| Koidu | Eastern Province | 128,030 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.