Western Area

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Western Area is the coastal administrative region of Sierra Leone that includes the nation’s capital, Freetown.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Western Area canonical 7
Western Area Urban District 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative region
first-level administrative subdivision
borders Atlantic Ocean
Northern Province
Southern Province
capital Freetown
contains Freetown
Lungi International Airport catchment area
Parliament of Sierra Leone
surface form: Sierra Leone House of Parliament

Western Area, Sierra Leone
surface form: State House of Sierra Leone

Western Area Rural District
Western Area self-linksurface differs
surface form: Western Area Urban District
country Sierra Leone
hasClimate tropical monsoon climate
hasCoastalFeature Port of Freetown
surface form: Freetown Harbour

Sierra Leone River estuary
hasCoastline Atlantic coast of Sierra Leone
hasCountryCallingCode +232
hasEconomicActivity government services
port services
tourism
trade
hasEthnicDiversity high
hasFunction administrative centre of Sierra Leone
economic centre of Sierra Leone
political centre of Sierra Leone
hasGovernmentSeat Freetown
hasISO3166-2Code SL-W
hasLargestCity Freetown
hasMajorLanguage Krio language
surface form: Krio
hasMajorPort Port of Freetown
hasNotableIsland Bunce Island
Pepel Island NERFINISHED
Tasso Island NERFINISHED
hasOfficialLanguage English
hasPart Freetown
surface form: Freetown Peninsula
hasPrimaryReligion Islam
hasRoadConnection Bo
Kenema District
surface form: Kenema

Makeni
hasSecondaryReligion Christianity
hasUrbanAreaType metropolitan region
locatedIn Sierra Leone
locatedInTimeZone Greenwich Mean Time
locatedOn Atlantic Ocean
timeZoneOffset +00:00

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Freetown locatedIn Western Area
Hastings, Sierra Leone locatedIn Western Area
Western Area contains Western Area self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Western Area Urban District
Sierra Leone Peninsula locatedIn Western Area
Port of Freetown locatedIn Western Area
State House locatedIn Western Area
subject surface form: State House (Sierra Leone)
King’s Yard Gate locatedInAdministrativeEntity Western Area
this entity surface form: Western Area Urban District