This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

The Best Attractions In Eastern Province

x
The Eastern Province is one of the three provinces of Sierra Leone. It covers an area of 15,553 km² and has a population of 1,641,012 . Its capital and administrative centre is Kenema. Eastern Province, the centre of the country's diamond mining industry, is very mountainous and has two ranges, the Gola Hills and the Loma Mountains.
Continue reading...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Filter Attractions:

The Best Attractions In Eastern Province

  • 7. Cotton Tree Freetown
    The Cotton Tree is a Ceiba pentandra, also known commonly as a kapok tree, a historic symbol of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. According to legend, the Cotton Tree gained importance in 1792 when a group of former African American slaves, who had gained their freedom by fighting for the British during the American War of Independence, settled the site of modern Freetown. These Black Loyalist settlers, called Nova Scotians because they came from Nova Scotia after leaving the United States and before they decided to go back to Africa or, Navatians in Sierra Leone, founded Freetown on March 11th 1792.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 8. Bunce Island Freetown
    Bunce Island is an island in the Sierra Leone River. It is situated in Freetown Harbour, the estuary of the Rokel River and Port Loko Creek, about 20 miles upriver from Sierra Leone's capital city Freetown. The island measures about 1,650 feet by 350 feet and houses a castle that was built by a British slave-trading company in c.1670. Tens of thousands of Africans were shipped from here to the North American colonies of South Carolina and Georgia to be forced into slavery, and are the ancestors of many African Americans of the United States. Although the island is small, its strategic position at the limit of navigation for ocean-going ships in Africa's largest natural harbour made it an ideal base for European slave traders. To mark the 2007–2008 bicentennial of Great Britain's abolitio...
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Eastern Province Videos

Shares

x

Places in Eastern Province

x
x

Near By Places

Menu