Freetown, Sierra Leone

Freetown, Sierra Leone is a submarine cable landing point in Sierra Leone (coordinates 8.4853°, -13.2381°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Sierra Leone's international connectivity infrastructure.

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, as it is the seat of the Government of Sierra Leone. The population of Freetown was 1,347,559 as of the 2024 census. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Freetown, Sierra Leone, international traffic can reach 17 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea and 9 more. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Freetown, Sierra Leone in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) (2012) — Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) is a 17,000 km submarine cable that runs along the entire Atlantic coast of West Africa and ends in France. It lands at 19 stations across 19 countries, which makes it one of the most widely-landed submarine cables in the world. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.