Tower Hill is an affluent government and residential neighborhood in central

Freetown 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 an ...

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra ...

. Tower Hill is located within the

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downtown ''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business distric ...

Freetown. Tower Hill is the

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of the

government of Sierra Leone The government of Sierra Leone is the governing authority of the Republic of Sierra Leone, as established by the Sierra Leone Constitution. The Sierra Leone government is divided into three branches: the executive, legislative and the judiciary. ...

, as it is home to the State House (the office and residence of the Sierra Leone president). Tower Hill is also home to the

Sierra Leone House of Parliament Sierra Leone House of Parliament is the meeting place of the Parliament of Sierra Leone, the legislative body of the Republic of Sierra Leone. It is located at Tower Hill in central Freetown, within the central business district in downtown F ...

, the

Ministry of Defence and National Security (Sierra Leone) Sierra Leone Ministry of Defence and National Security is a Sierra Leonean government department in charge of implementing and supervising the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, Sierra Leone Armed Forces and the territorial security of Sie ...

, the

Bank of Sierra Leone The Bank of Sierra Leone is the central bank of Sierra Leone. It issues the country's currency, known as the Leone. The bank formulates and implements monetary policy, including foreign exchange. Organisation and activities The current g ...

, the

Sierra Leone National Electoral Commission Sierra (Spanish for " mountain range" and " saw", from Latin ''serra'') may refer to the following: Places Mountains and mountain ranges * Sierra de Juárez, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico * Sierra de las Nieves, a mountain rang ...

(NEC), and many other government buildings.

External links

statehouse.gov.sllonelyplanet.com
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