City profile · Sierra Leone · Africa
Port Loko
North West · Sierra Leone
City population
44,900
#7
in Sierra Leone
#12,572
worldwide
8.766, -12.787 · 58 km from Freetown
About Port Loko
Port Loko is a city in North West, Sierra Leone with a population of 44,900. It is the 7th largest of the 13 cities of 15,000 or more listed in Sierra Leone, and the 12,572nd largest worldwide. It lies 58 km from Freetown.
Key Facts
Country
Region
North West
Elevation
51 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
Africa/Freetown
Coordinates
8.766, -12.787
Record updated
2026-05-06
Entry edited, not measured
City population, GeoNames. GeoNames publishes no year for its population figures, so “record updated” is when the entry was last edited — not the date the population was measured. Elevation is modelled from a digital elevation model rather than surveyed, so it is approximate.
Nearby Cities
All 13 in Sierra LeoneClosest listed cities by great-circle distance from the city centre.