Wellington is a residential

neighborhood A neighbourhood (British English, Irish English, Australian English and Canadian English) or neighborhood (American English; see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area, ...

in the East End of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Wellington is densely populated, with an ethnically diverse population. Wellington is home to is several industrial estate, and several minor industries found in the country. These include the

Sierra Leone Brewery Limited Heineken and United African Company The Royal Niger Company was a mercantile company chartered by the British government in the nineteenth century. It was formed in 1879 as the ''United African Company '' and renamed to ''National African ...

, Marika Palm Kernel Enterprises, etc. In 2021, it was the location of the

Freetown fuel tanker explosion On 5 November 2021 a collision between a petrol fuel tanker and a lorry at a busy junction of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, resulted in an explosion and a fire that caused 154 deaths and 304 injuries, overwhelming the city's medical service ...

References

Neighbourhoods in Freetown Populated coastal places in Sierra Leone Populated places established by Sierra Leone Creoles Western Area {{SierraLeone-geo-stub