1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Sierra Leone
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Freetown—802,639, Africa/Freetown, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of Sierra Leone.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Freetown is GeoNames ID 2409306. Its recorded administrative path is Western Area → Sierra Leone, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Freetown occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2024-01-18; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Freetown ranks 692 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Sierra Leone entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 137. Its 802,639 population value is 1.00 times the 802,639 median for the country cohort and 0.89 times the 902,588 regional median. Freetown is rank 1 among the 1 selected Sierra Leone entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Freetown's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Freetown's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Conakry at 126.513 km with 1,928,389 recorded people; Camayenne at 126.658 km with 1,871,242 recorded people; Monrovia at 362.523 km with 1,542,549 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 236.01 km. Compared with Conakry, Freetown's recorded population is 0.42 times as large. Against Freetown, Conakry follows Conakry Special Zone → Conakry → Guinea in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Guinea cohort rather than Sierra Leone, uses Africa/Conakry instead of Africa/Freetown, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Freetown's. Against Freetown, Camayenne follows Conakry → Guinea in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Guinea cohort rather than Sierra Leone, uses Africa/Conakry instead of Africa/Freetown, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Freetown's. Against Freetown, Monrovia follows Montserrado County → Liberia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Liberia cohort rather than Sierra Leone, uses Africa/Monrovia instead of Africa/Freetown, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Freetown's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 807 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Freetown's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2409306, the coordinate pair 8.4871 / 13.2356, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2422465 at 126.513 km bind Freetown to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Freetown's reference point is 8.4871° north and 13.2356° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Freetown is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Freetown's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Freetown's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Freetown's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Freetown, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Freetown's closest other entries in this atlas are Conakry (126.513 km), Camayenne (126.658 km), Monrovia (362.523 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-01-18; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.