Kailahun
Sign in to saveKailahun is the capital of Kailahun District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Kailahun is a major business and commercial center of Kailahun District. The population was 13,108 in the 2004 census, a 2006 estimate of 18,411 and a current estimate of about 30,411. Kailahun lies in the far east of Sierra Leone, approximately 200 miles east of Freetown (320 miles by road), about 51 miles north east of Kenema (75 miles by road), and near the border of Liberia.[https://charlycox.blogspot.com/2007/02/kicking-about-in-kailahun.html
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Place details
- Locality
- Kailahun
- Region
- Eastern Province
- Country
- Sierra Leone
- Population
- 14,085
- Timezone
- Africa/Freetown
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Key facts
- Settlement.other_name
- Kailahun, Sierra Leone
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kailahun Government Hospital.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Kailahun Government Hospital at its reopening in 2004
- Settlement.image_map
- CIASierraLeoneKailahun.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Sierra Leone
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Sierra Leone
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Eastern Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kailahun District
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Chiefdom
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Luawa Chiefdom
- Settlement.leader_title
- Town Chief of Kailahun
- Settlement.leader_name
- Alpha Ndoleh
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2013
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Kailahun is the capital of Kailahun District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Kailahun is a major business and commercial center of Kailahun District. The population was 13,108 in the 2004 census, a 2006 estimate of 18,411 and a current estimate of about 30,411. Kailahun lies in the far east of Sierra Leone, approximately 200 miles east of Freetown (320 miles by road), about 51 miles north east of Kenema (75 miles by road), and near the border of Liberia.[https://charlycox.blogspot.com/2007/02/kicking-about-in-kailahun.html
Kailahun is a trade center, and is one of the major towns in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. The population of Kailahun is largely from the Mende ethnic group. As with most parts of Sierra Leone, the Krio language of the Sierra Leone Creole people is by far the most widely spoken language in Kailahun and is the primary means of communication in the city.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kailahun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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