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Section sizes Section size for Sierra Leone (70 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 13,924 13,924 Etymology 825 825 History 48 73,525 Early history 3,455 3,455 European trading 2,297 2,297 Early Portuguese interactions 298 298 Black Poor of London 492 6,944 Resettlement of Black Loyalists 3,514 3,514 Establishment of the Province of Freedom 2,938 2,938 Nova Scotians 3,075 3,075 Jamaican Maroons and Liberated Africans 6,421 6,421 Colonial era (1800–1961) 13,370 13,370 Independence and post-independence era 325 20,623 1960 Independence Conference 1,197 1,197 Independence (1961) and Margai Administration (1961–1964) 3,065 3,065 After the death of Milton Margai and Albert Margai's tenure (1964–1967) 3,317 3,317 1967 General Election and military coups (1967–1968) 3,199 3,199 One-party state and dawn of the 'Republic' (1968–1991) 9,520 9,520 Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002) and the NPRC regime (1992–1996) 8,768 15,871 Kabbah's tenure: government, "dawn of a new republic", the AFRC and end of the Civil War (1996–2007) 7,103 7,103 2007 General Election and beyond 687 687 Struggle with the Ebola epidemic (2014–2016) 436 436 Geography 3,688 12,933 Biodiversity 9,245 9,245 Government and politics 3,155 26,919 Parliament 2,252 2,252 Judiciary 911 911 Foreign relations 3,680 3,680 Military 2,775 2,775 Law enforcement 1,627 1,627 Human rights 1,569 1,569 Leadership in World governance initiatives 1,579 1,579 Administrative divisions 9,371 9,371 Economy 1,995 16,850 Agriculture 2,162 2,162 Mining 2,581 2,581 Transport infrastructure 3,104 3,104 Energy in Sierra Leone 139 7,008 Overview 3,196 3,196 Solar energy 1,718 1,718 Hydroelectric power 1,955 1,955 Demographics 7,816 44,181 Religion 18,241 18,241 Ethnic groups 10,693 10,693 Gender equality 23 3,667 Household 1,811 1,811 War 1,047 1,047 Female economy 786 786 Education 3,764 3,764 Health 3,025 15,376 Emergency medical response 2,011 2,011 Endemic and infectious diseases 907 907 Maternal and child health 3,694 3,694 Mental health 965 965 Potable water supply 2,875 2,875 2014 Ebola outbreak 1,899 1,899 Culture 15 18,790 Polygamy 533 533 Food and customs 1,647 1,647 Media 10,917 10,917 Arts 1,278 1,278 Sports 4,400 4,400 Tourism 2,339 2,339 See also 77 77 Notes 39 39 References 30 30 Further reading 2,035 3,220 Fiction and memoir 926 1,185 Secondary sources 259 259 External links 4,652 4,652 Total 233,680 233,680

is the final E in the name of the country pronounced or silent? Is the official pronunciation any different from what most English speakers would expect? Humphrey Tribble ( talk) 06:59, 11 August 2023 (UTC) reply

The note seems to allow both pronunciations of Leone? Do the people use both? Humphrey Tribble ( talk) 21:41, 26 November 2023 (UTC) reply

I do not know anyone inside or outside the country that would pronounce the E. Davidbstanley ( talk) 08:06, 27 November 2023 (UTC) reply

Does the govt of Sierra Leone recognising "Bengali"as official language of their country ? Rabindra iop ( talk) 13:19, 15 August 2023 (UTC) reply

@ Rabindra iop: No. This has been discussed extensively in this talk page's archive and at Talk:Bengali language. -- Worldbruce ( talk) 13:51, 15 August 2023 (UTC) reply

Verdict: False. Bengali/Bangla, spoken in Bangladesh, has never been declared Sierra Leone’s official language. It is neither recognised nor spoken anywhere in the country, as claimed by the referenced media organisations. I found on some websites. Rabindra iop ( talk) 17:14, 15 August 2023 (UTC) reply

FWIW: once again, an IP editor has tried to add Bengali as an offical language of Sierra Leone in the infobox, citing the web site of the embassy of Sierra Leone [1] as "an official Sierra Leone government source". As already has been observed by User:Worldbruce in Talk:Sierra_Leone/Archive_1#Bangla_language, the embassy page is an unattributed word-for-word copy of the Wikipedia article from 2010 ( Special:Permalink/358833575, complete with the outdated population estimate of 6.4 million), thus not reliable as an instance of WP:CIRCULAR referencing. Obviously, the Information Attaché did a lazy plagiarism job. – Austronesier ( talk) 20:27, 11 May 2024 (UTC) reply

I’m from Sierra Leone, and I am Arabian. I am Muslim, and I speak Arabic. I’m sure some other people from Sierra Leone are Arab too, why is it not considered Arab? 76.214.106.131 ( talk) 04:27, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply