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Waterloo
Western Area, Sierra Leone · Africa
About Waterloo
Waterloo sits on the route: 15 minutes from Hastings.
Waterloo is in Western Area, Sierra Leone, with about 55,000 people. The nearest town is Hastings, about 9 km away.
Waterloo is a city in the Western Area of Sierra Leone and the capital of the Western Area Rural District, which is one of the sixteen districts of Sierra Leone. Waterloo is located about twenty miles east of Freetown. Waterloo is the second largest city in the Western Area region of Sierra Leone, after Freetown. TheRead more
city had a population of 34,079 in the 2004 census, and 55,000 as per a 2015 estimate, while the Waterloo - Hastings Urban Area had a population of 208,795 in 2015. Waterloo is part of the Freetown metropolitan area.
Waterloo is a major urban transport hub and lies on the main highway linking Freetown to the country's provinces. Waterloo is an entirely urban area, and lies 25 miles to Port Loko District entrance border line in the Northern Province.
Waterloo is one of Sierra Leone's most ethnically diverse cities, as it is home to many of Sierra Leone's ethnic groups, with no single ethnic group forming even 30% of the population .
Although Waterloo is part of the larger Western Area Rural district council, the city has its own directly elected city council headed by a mayor. The current mayor of Waterloo is Dennis Omojowo Browne of the All People's Congress who was elected in the 2018 Sierra Leone local elections.
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Waterloo is in Western Area, Sierra Leone, about 9 km from Hastings.
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- Population
- 55,000
- Continent
- Africa
- Country
- Sierra Leone
- Region
- Western Area
- Timezone
- Africa/Freetown
- Coordinates
- 8.3389, -13.0709
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