Port Loko is the capital and largest city of Port Loko District, in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. It lies 50 km (31 miles) east of Freetown. The city has a population of about 92,872 residents (2004 census. Port Loko lies on Port Loko Creek, which flows into the Sierra Leone River. This is an alphabetical list of the sovereign states of the world, including both de jure and de facto independent states. ... A province is a territorial unit, almost always a country subdivision. ... Northern Province is one of the four provinces of Sierra Leone. ... Sierra Leone is divided into 12 districts, the secondary administative division of government (after provinces). ... Location of Port Loko District in Sierra Leone Port Loko District is one of the 14 Districts of Sierra Leone. ... Timezone and TimeZone redirect here. ... GMT redirects here. ... -12 | -11 | -10 | -9:30 | -9 | -8 | -7 | -6 | -5 | -4 | -3:30 | -3 | -2:30 | -2 | -1 | -0:25 | UTC (0) | +0:20 | +0:30 | +1 | +2 | +3 | +3:30 | +4 | +4:30 | +4:51 | +5 | +5:30 | +5:40 | +5:45 | +6 | +6:30 | +7 | +7:20 | +7... Not to be confused with capitol. ... For other uses, see City (disambiguation). ... Location of Port Loko District in Sierra Leone Port Loko District is one of the 14 Districts of Sierra Leone. ... Northern Province is one of the four provinces of Sierra Leone. ... KM, Km, or km may stand for: Khmer language (ISO 639 alpha-2, km) Kilometre Kinemantra Meditation Knowledge management KM programming language KM Culture, Korean Movie Maker. ... Look up Mile in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other places with the same name, see Freetown (disambiguation). ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image:1870 census Lindauer Weber 01. ...

Sport

Port Loko has a football named the Bai Bureh Warriors. The club currently plays in the Nationwide First Division, the second highest football league in Sierra Leone. Bai Bureh Warriors FC is a Sierra Leonean football (soccer)club based in Port Loko, Sierra Leone. ...

Notable people from Port Loko

• Bai Bureh, Hero of The 1898 Rebellion
• Sorie Ibrahim Koroma, Vice President of Sierra Leone from 1971-1986

Bai Bureh Bai Bureh (ca. ... Sorie Ibrahim Koroma (born 1930 in Port Loko, Port Loko District, Sierra Leone – died sometime in the mid- to late 1990s) is a former Sierra Leonean politician and labor activist. ...

External links

• Sierra Leone Encyclopedia: Port Loko
• BBC News story: Port Loko success for Ecomog

Coordinates: 8°46′N, 12°47′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...