National
Languages
English (official, regular use limited to literate minority)
Mende (principal vernacular in the south)
Temne (principal vernacular in the north)
Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants
of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown
area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10 of
the population but understood by 95)
National
Currency
Sierra Leonean Leone
SLL
National
Animal
the chimpanzee
National
Bird
white-throated bee eater
National
Flower
Giant potato lilac-star flower (Ipomoea mauritiana)
National
Fruit
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