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Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and political centre. The city proper had a population of 951,000 at the 2014 census.
The city's economy revolves largely around its harbor, which occupies a part of the estuary of the Sierra Leone River in one of the world's largest natural deep water harbors.
As the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown is the seat of the Government of Sierra Leone, as the city is home to the State House, the House of Parliament, and the Supreme Court.
The population of Freetown is ethnically, culturally, and religiously diverse, primarily among Muslims and Christians. The city is home to a significant population of virtually all of the Sierra Leone's ethnic groups, with no single ethnic group forming a majority of the city's population. As in virtually all parts of Sierra Leone, the Krio language is Freetown's primary language of communication and is by far the most widely spoken language in the city.
The city of Freetown was founded on March 11, 1792 by Lieutenant John Clarkson and African American ex-slaves and free people called the Nova Scotian Settlers, who were transported to Sierra Leone by the Sierra Leone Company in 1792. Freetown is the oldest capital to be founded by African Americans, having been founded thirty years before Monrovia, Liberia.
The city of Freetown is locally governed by a directly elected city council municipality, known as the Freetown City Council, headed by a mayor. The current mayor of Freetown is Franklyn Bode Gibson, of the APC, who was elected mayor with 68.25% of the votes, in the 2012 Freetown municipal mayoral election.
The City of Freetown is divided into three municipal regions; the East End, Central, and the West End. The East End is both the most populous, and the most densely populous of the three regions within Freetown. The East End is home to the country's harbor. Central Freetown is home to the State House, the House of Parliament, the Supreme Court, the National Stadium, Bank of Sierra Leone, and the historic Cotton Tree. The West of Freetown is the least populous of the three regions within Freetown. The West End is home to the country 's Lumley Beach, Fourah Bay College, and the State Lodge.
Freetown is the name of several places located throughout the world:
Sierra Leone- Freetown, the capital
- Freetown, Alabama
- Freetown, Indiana
- Freetown, Kentucky
- Freetown, Massachusetts
- Freetown, Louisiana
- Freetown, New York
- Freetown (East Hampton), New York
- Freetown, Virginia
- Freetown, Bahamas
- Freetown Christiania
- Freetown, Sri Lanka, a social located known as Kotte
- Freetown, Antigua and Barbuda
- Freetown (Belize House constituency), a Belize City-based electoral district.
Freetown is an area in East Hampton (town), New York originally inhabited by freed slaves and Native Americans.
East Hampton in the early 19th century was lightly populated and one of the biggest slave holders were descendents of Lion Gardiner who owned Gardiner's Island. During the War of 1812 slaves from the island were used to ferry supplies back and forth because they could slip through British lines because it was "obvious" that they were "owned."
After slavery was abolished in New York State in 1827, freed slaves were relocated to small houses just north of East Hampton (village), New York. An 1858 Chace Map shows only 13 structures in town
In 1879 Arthur W. Benson bought 10,000 acres (40 km²) around Montauk, New York from the Montaukett tribe and relocated tribe members to Freetown.
There is little direct connection to the neighborhood now. One of the last structures from the town is the St. Matthews Chapel which was moved in 1976 to what is now East Hampton Pointe.
Freetown is a future railroad station on the MBTA Commuter Rail's Providence/Stoughton Line located in Assonet, Massachusetts. It is being built as part of the state's effort to extend rail service to Fall River and New Bedford.
Freetown is an electoral constituency in the Belize District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2003 by Francis Fonseca of the People's United Party. Fonseca is the current Leader of the Opposition.
Freetown is a 2015 film based on a true story about Mormon missionaries in Liberia seeking to escape the Liberian Civil War to safety in Sierra Leone.
The filming was done entirely in West Africa.
The film was nominated for several Ghana Movie Awards: Actor in a Leading Role (Henry Adofo), Screenplay ( Melissa Leilani Larson and Garrett Batty), Original Score (Kirk Sharpe), Visual Effects (Davin Bekins), Production Design (Albert Aidoo and Courage Wormenor), Cinematography (Jeremy Prusso), Sound Editing and Mixing (George Dankwa), Directing (Garrett Batty), and Best Picture. It won the screenplay award over the also-nominated films If Tomorrow Never Comes, Beasts of No Nation, The Cursed Ones, and Silver Rain.
The film is shortlisted for an AML Award.