| NAME: |
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| LOCATION: |
Africa & The Middle East |
| GOVERNMENT: |
Constitutional Democracy |
| OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: |
English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, understood by 95%) |
| MAJOR RELIGION(S): |
Muslim 60%, Christian 10%, indigenous beliefs 30% |
| MAJOR ETHNIC GROUPS: |
20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves), small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians. |
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