Sierra Leone
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Sierra Leone is a nation of west Africa, bounded by Guinea to its north and east, Liberia to its south-east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its west. Freetown, now the capital city, was founded in 1787 as a home for former slaves who had fought for the during the American War of Independence, and became a formal British colony in. The interior of what became Sierra Leone became a British protectorate in 1896. Sierra achieved from Britain in 1961. Between 2002 the country and its suffered huge damage in a civil war, finally ended by the intervention of British troops.
Sierra Leone has an area of 27,699 square miles (71,740 sq km) and a population (2007 est.) 6.1 million.
