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World Heritage Sites in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone has 1 site on UNESCO’s World Heritage List — 1 natural. Below: how they split by type, and the headline sites. From UNESCO’s official list, snapshot 2026-06-22.
SITES1
CULTURAL · NATURAL0 · 1
IN DANGER0
By heritage type
Cultural0 · 0%
Natural1 · 100%
Mixed0 · 0%
Notable sites in Sierra Leone
A spread of the country’s heritage — the rarer mixed and natural sites first, then its earliest inscriptions.
naturalGola-Tiwai Complex2025
This serial property includes the Gola Rainforest National Park and the Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary. Part of the Greater Gola Landscape, it lies within the Upper Guinean Forest, a biodiversity hotspot. The area hosts more than 1,000 plant species (113 endemic), 55 mammals (19 globally threate…