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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is one of the 193 UN member states, in Western Africa. UN Tourism counted 71,000 international arrivals there in 2019, rarer than 95% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Prism.

Sierra Leone’s stamp in Globestamp
Prism · 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year
International arrivals
71,000in 2019, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
189th of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Prismrarer than 95%
Area
71,914 km² (27,766 sq mi)
Population
7.8 millionNatural Earth estimate
Provinces
4in Globestamp’s regions layer
Airports
1with scheduled flights
World Heritage Sites
1on Globestamp’s list

Does Sierra Leone count as a country?

Yes. Sierra Leone is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

ListCounts Sierra Leone?
UN member states (193)Yes, a member
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Sierra Leone
European UnionNo
Schengen areaNo

The Sierra Leone stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Sierra Leone’s is Prism: the full spectrum with glints, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year. With 71,000 international arrivals in 2019, Sierra Leone is rarer than 95% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to Sierra Leone

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Sierra Leone when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. With a single airport with scheduled flights (Lungi International Airport, FNA), photos only at the airport make a transit stamp, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Places in Sierra Leone you can collect

Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Sierra Leone, from 1 World Heritage Site.

World Heritage Sites 1

Gola-Tiwai complex (2025). On the bucket list →

Largest cities

CityPeople (urban area)
Freetown827,000
Bo174,354
Kenema143,137
Makeni87,679
Koidu87,539

Airports

Sierra Leone has 1 airport with scheduled flights. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

4 provinces to fill in

Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Sierra Leone into 4 provinces (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.

All 4

Eastern · Northern · Southern · Western Area

Questions people ask

Is Sierra Leone a country?

Yes. Sierra Leone is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

How many tourists visit Sierra Leone a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 71,000 international arrivals in Sierra Leone in 2019, the 189th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a Sierra Leone stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Prism, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year, rarer than 95% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does Sierra Leone count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Sierra Leone”, one of its 330 destinations.

Places as rare as Sierra Leone

Near Sierra Leone

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