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Transportation of Sierra Leone

Airports:10 (2006)
Airports - with paved runways:total: 1
over 3,047 m: 1 (2006)
Airports - with unpaved runways:total: 9
914 to 1,523 m: 7
under 914 m: 2 (2006)
Heliports:2 (2006)
Roadways:total: 11,300 km
paved: 904 km
unpaved: 10,396 km (2002)
Waterways:800 km (600 km year round) (2005)
Merchant marine:total: 54 ships (1000 GRT or over) 185,037 GRT/249,996 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 2, cargo 36, chemical tanker 3, combination ore/oil 3, liquefied gas 1, livestock carrier 1, passenger 1, passenger/cargo 3, petroleum tanker 2, roll on/roll off 2
foreign-owned: 14 (China 2, Cyprus 1, Egypt 1, Russia 1, Syria 1, UAE 3, Ukraine 4, US 1) (2006)
Ports and terminals:Freetown, Pepel, Sherbro Islands

Sierra Leone Quickstats

  • Population: 6,144,562 (July 2007 est.)
  • Area: 71,740 sq km
  • Density: 83 /km² (114th¹)
  • GDP (total): $4.921 billion (151st)
  • GDP (per capita): $903 (172nd)
  • Literacy: 35.1%

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  • Currency: Leone (SLL)
  • Dial code: +232

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