Guinea

Guinea is a former French colony in . Guinea has some spectacular landscapes with a few tropical, dry forests remaining, and the rainforests in the south are lush, verdant and full of wildlife — much of it destined for the cooking pot.
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Maritime Guinea, also known as Lower Guinea, is one of the four natural regions of Guinea.
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Guinea

  • Country with about 17,500,000 residents
  • …has as its capital
  • …uses the Franc (GNF)
  • …has the phone code 224
  • …uses the internet domain .gn
  • …covers 245,857 km² (94,926 miles²)
  • Description: sovereign state in West Africa
  • Also known as
    “Französisch-Guinea”
    “French Guinea”
    “gn”
    “GUI”
    “Guinea-Conakry”
    “Guinean People’s Republic”
    “Guinée Française”
    “People’s Revolutionary Republic of Guinea”
    “Popular and Revolutionary Republic of Guinea”
    “Republic of Guinea”
    “Revolutionary People’s Republic of Guinea”
  • Language: French
  • Neighbors
  • Categories
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    locality
  • Location
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Latitude of center
10.29° or 10° 17′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
-11.12° or 11° 7′ 12″ west
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424297586
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
2420477
Wiki­data ID
Q1006

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Guinea” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Гвинеиа”
  • Abkhazian: “Гвинеиатәи ареспублика”
  • Achinese: “Guinea”
  • Adyghe: “Гвинейе”
  • Afrikaans: “Guinee”
  • Akan: “Gini”
  • Albanian: “Guine”
  • Albanian: “Guinea”
  • Albanian: “Guineja”
  • Amharic: “ጊኒ”
  • Amharic: “ጊኔ”
  • Amis: “Guinea”
  • Angika: “गीनिया”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية غينيا”
  • Arabic: “غينيا”
  • Aragonese: “Guinea”
  • Armenian: “Գվինեա”
  • Arpitan: “Guinê”
  • Assamese: “গিনি”
  • Asturian: “Guinea”
  • Atayal: “Guinea”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qvineya”
  • Balinese: “Guinea”
  • Bambara: “Gine”
  • Banjar: “Guinea”
  • Bashkir: “Гвинея”
  • Basque: “Ginea”
  • Bavarian: “Guinea”
  • Belarusian: “Гвінея”
  • Belarusian: “Гвінэя”
  • Bengali: “গিনি”
  • Betawi: “Giné”
  • Bhojpuri: “गिनी”
  • Bishnupriya: “গিনি”
  • Bislama: “Gini”
  • Bosnian: “Gvineja”
  • Breton: “Ginea”
  • Bulgarian: “Гвинея”
  • Burmese: “ဂီနီ”
  • Burmese: “ဂီနီနိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “ဂီရာနာ”
  • Catalan: “Guinea-Conakry”
  • Catalan: “Guinea”
  • Catalan: “República de Guinea”
  • Cebuano: “Guinea”
  • Central Bikol: “Guineya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Guinea”
  • Central Kurdish: “گینیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “گینێ”
  • Chavacano: “Guinea”
  • Chechen: “Гвине”
  • Chechen: “Гвиней”
  • Chinese: “Jīnèiyà”
  • Chinese: “几内亚 / 畿內亞”
  • Chinese: “几内亚”
  • Chinese: “几内亚共和国”
  • Chinese: “幾內亞”
  • Chinese: “幾內亞共和國”
  • Chinese: “畿內亞”
  • Chuvash: “Гвиней”
  • Cornish: “Gyni”
  • Corsican: “Guinea”
  • Corsican: “Republica di Guinea”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Gvineya”
  • Croatian: “Gvineja”
  • Czech: “Guinea”
  • Dagbani: “Guinea”
  • Danish: “Guinea”
  • Dhivehi: “ގީނިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Gine”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Gineya”
  • Dotyali: “गिनी”
  • Dutch: “Guinea”
  • Dutch: “Guinee”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Guinee”
  • Dzongkha: “གྷི་ནི།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Гвиней”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جينيا”
  • Esperanto: “Gvineo-Konakrio”
  • Esperanto: “Gvineo”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Gvineo”
  • Estonian: “Guinea Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Guinea”
  • Ewe: “Gini”
  • Ewe: “Guinea”
  • Ewe: “Guini nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Guinea”
  • Farefare: “Guinea”
  • Faroese: “Guinea”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Guinea”
  • Finnish: “Guinea”
  • Finnish: “Guinean tasavalta”
  • Fon: “Ginetò”
  • French: “Guinée-Conakry”
  • French: “Guinée”
  • French: “République de Guinée”
  • Fulah: “Gine”
  • Ga: “Guinea-Konakry”
  • Ga: “Guinea”
  • Gagauz: “Gvineya”
  • Galician: “Guinea”
  • Ganda: “Gini”
  • Ganda: “Guinea”
  • Georgian: “გვინეა”
  • German: “Guinea”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Guinea-Conakry”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Guinea”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Guinea”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “République de Guinée”
  • Gilaki: “گينه”
  • Greek: “Γουινέα”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Γουινέας”
  • Guarani: “Ginéa”
  • Guarani: “Gynéa”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Giné”
  • Gujarati: “ગિની”
  • Haitian: “Gine”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Guinea”
  • Hausa: “Gine”
  • Hausa: “Gini”
  • Hebrew: “גינאה”
  • Hebrew: “גיניאה”
  • Hindi: “गिनी”
  • Hungarian: “Guinea”
  • Hungarian: “Guineai Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Gínea”
  • Ido: “Guinea”
  • Igbo: “Guinea”
  • Iloko: “Guinea”
  • Inari Sami: “Guinea täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Guinea”
  • Indonesian: “Guinea”
  • Interlingua: “Guinea”
  • Interlingue: “Guinea”
  • Irish: “An Ghuine”
  • Irish: “Guine”
  • Irish: “Poblacht na Guine”
  • Italian: “Guinea Conakry”
  • Italian: “Guinea”
  • Italian: “Repubblica di Guinea”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Gini”
  • Japanese: “ギニー”
  • Japanese: “ギニア・コナクリ”
  • Japanese: “ギニア”
  • Japanese: “ギニア共和国”
  • Japanese: “ギネ”
  • Japanese: “幾内亜”
  • Japanese: “銀名”
  • Javanese: “Guinéa”
  • Jju: “Gini”
  • Kabiyè: “Kinee-Konakrii”
  • Kabyle: “Ginya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Guinea”
  • Kalmyk: “Гвинмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಗಿನಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gvineya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Гвинея”
  • Karekare: “Guinea”
  • Kashmiri: “گِنی”
  • Kashubian: “Gwineja”
  • Kazakh: “Гвинея”
  • Khmer: “ហ្គីណេ”
  • Kikuyu: “Gine”
  • Kikuyu: “Guinea”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Gineya”
  • Kirghiz: “Гвинея”
  • Komering: “Gini”
  • Komering: “Guinea”
  • Kongo: “Ginea”
  • Korean: “기네”
  • Korean: “기니”
  • Kotava: “Guinea”
  • Kurdish: “Gînê”
  • Ladin: “Guinea”
  • Ladino: “Ginea”
  • Lao: “ກິນີ”
  • Latin: “Guinea”
  • Latvian: “Gvineja-Konakri”
  • Latvian: “Gvineja”
  • Latvian: “Gvinejas Republika”
  • Ligurian: “Guinea”
  • Limburgan: “Guinee”
  • Lingala: “Gine-Konakry”
  • Lingala: “Ginɛ-Konakry”
  • Lingala: “Ginɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Gine”
  • Literary Chinese: “幾內亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Gvinėja”
  • Livvi: “Gvinea”
  • Livvi: “Gvinei”
  • Lombard: “Guinea”
  • Low German: “Guinea-Konakry”
  • Low German: “Guinea”
  • Low German: “Guinee”
  • Low German: “Republik Guinea”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Guineja”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Ngine”
  • Lule Sami: “Guniddja”
  • Luxembourgish: “Guinea”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Guinea”
  • Macedonian: “Гвинеја”
  • Malagasy: “Ginea”
  • Malay: “Guinea”
  • Malayalam: “ഗിനി”
  • Malayalam: “ഗിനിയ”
  • Malayalam: “ഫ്രഞ്ച് ഗിനി”
  • Malayalam: “റിപ്പബ്ലിക്ക് ഓഫ് ഗിനി”
  • Maltese: “Ginea”
  • Maltese: “Guinea”
  • Maltese: “Gwinea”
  • Maltese: “il-Guinea”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Guinea”
  • Manipuri: “ꯒꯤꯅꯤ”
  • Manx: “gn”
  • Manx: “GUI”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght y Ghuinea”
  • Manx: “y Ghuinea”
  • Manx: “Yn Ghuinea”
  • Maori: “Kini”
  • Marathi: “गिनी”
  • Mazanderani: “گینه”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Guinea”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guinea”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guinée”
  • Minangkabau: “Guinea”
  • Mingrelian: “გვინეა”
  • Mirandese: “Guiné”
  • Moksha: “Гвинэя”
  • Mongolian: “Гвиней”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “غينيا”
  • N'Ko: “ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫ - ߞߐߣߊߞߙߌ߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߬ ߞߊ߲ߓߍ߲”
  • N'Ko: “ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߬ ߡߊ߲߬ߘߋ߲߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫”
  • Nauru: “Gini”
  • Nepali: “गिनी”
  • Newari: “गिनी”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “gn”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “GUI”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Guinea-Conakry”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Guinea”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Republic of Guinea”
  • North Ndebele: “Guinea”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guinea”
  • Northern Luri: “گینه”
  • Northern Sami: “Guinea dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Guinea”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guinea”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Guinea”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guinea”
  • Norwegian: “Guinea”
  • Novial: “Gini”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Guinea”
  • Obolo: “Gini Kọnakiri”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guinèa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Guinea”
  • Oriya: “ଗିନି”
  • Oriya: “ଗୁଇନିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Giinii”
  • Ossetian: “Гвиней”
  • Pali: “गिनी”
  • Pampanga: “Ginea”
  • Pampanga: “Guinea”
  • Panjabi: “ਗਿਨੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Guinea”
  • Pedi: “Guinea”
  • Persian: “گوینیا”
  • Persian: “گینه”
  • Picard: “Guinée”
  • Piemontese: “Guinea”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Gini”
  • Polish: “Gwinea”
  • Portuguese: “gn”
  • Portuguese: “GUI”
  • Portuguese: “Guiné-Conacri”
  • Portuguese: “Guiné”
  • Portuguese: “República da Guiné”
  • Portuguese: “République de Guinée”
  • Pushto: “ګونې”
  • Pushto: “ګينه”
  • Pushto: “ګینه”
  • Quechua: “Guinea”
  • Quechua: “Khiniya”
  • Romanian: “Guinea”
  • Romanian: “Guineea”
  • Romansh: “Guinea”
  • Rundi: “Guneya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Гвиней”
  • Russian: “Гвинейская Республика”
  • Russian: “Гвинея-Конакри”
  • Russian: “Гвинея”
  • Russian: “Республика Гвинея”
  • Rusyn: “Ґвінея”
  • Sakizaya: “Guinea”
  • Samoan: “Guinea”
  • Samoan: “Kini”
  • Samogitian: “Gvėniejė”
  • Sango: “Ginëe”
  • Sanskrit: “गिनी”
  • Sardinian: “Guinea”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Guinea”
  • Scots: “Guinea”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gini”
  • Serbian: “Gvineja”
  • Serbian: “Гвинеја”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gvineja”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၵီးၼီး”
  • Shona: “Ghini”
  • Shona: “Guinea”
  • Sicilian: “Guinia”
  • Silesian: “Gwinyjo”
  • Sindhi: “جمھوريہ گني”
  • Sindhi: “گني جي ريپبلڪ”
  • Sindhi: “گني-ڪوناڪري”
  • Sindhi: “گني”
  • Sinhala: “ගිණියාව”
  • Sinhala: “ගිනියා ජනරජය”
  • Sinhala: “ගිනියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Guinea tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Guinea”
  • Slovak: “Guinea”
  • Slovak: “Guinejská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Gvineja”
  • Somali: “Gini”
  • Somali: “Guinea”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قینه”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Guinea-Conakry”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Guinea”
  • Southern Sotho: “Guinea”
  • Spanish: “Guinea Francesa”
  • Spanish: “Guinea-Conakri”
  • Spanish: “Guinea”
  • Spanish: “República de Guinea”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴳⵉⵏⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Guinéa”
  • Swahili: “Gine”
  • Swahili: “Guinea”
  • Swati: “IGiniya”
  • Swedish: “Guinea”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Guinea”
  • Swiss German: “Guinea”
  • Tachelhit: “Ɣinya”
  • Tagalog: “Ginea”
  • Tagalog: “Guinea”
  • Tajik: “Гвинея”
  • Talysh: “Gvinejə”
  • Talysh: “Qvineyə”
  • Tamil: “கினி”
  • Tamil: “கினியா”
  • Taroko: “Guinea”
  • Tatar: “Гвинея”
  • Telugu: “గినియా”
  • Telugu: “గినీ”
  • Thai: “กินี”
  • Thai: “ประเทศกินี”
  • Tibetan: “གྷི་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “གི་ནེ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ጊኒ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kini”
  • Tsonga: “Gineya”
  • Tswana: “Guinea”
  • Tumbuka: “Guinea”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “غينيا”
  • Turkish: “Gine”
  • Turkmen: “Gwineýa respublikasy”
  • Turkmen: “Gwineýa”
  • Twi: “Guinea”
  • Tyap: “A̱byin Gini”
  • Tyap: “Gini-Konaki̱ri”
  • Tyap: “Gini”
  • Udmurt: “Гвинея”
  • Uighur: “گۋىنىيە”
  • Uighur: “گىۋىنىيە”
  • Uighur: “ۋىنېيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Гвінея”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґвінея”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Гвінея”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Gineja”
  • Urdu: “جمہوریہ گنی”
  • Urdu: “گنی”
  • Uzbek: “Gvineya”
  • Venetian: “Guinea”
  • Veps: “Gvinei”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Guinée”
  • Vietnamese: “Ghi-nê (Guinea)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ghi-nê”
  • Vietnamese: “Guinea”
  • Vietnamese: “Guinée”
  • Vlax Romani: “Guineya”
  • Volapük: “Gineyän”
  • Võro: “Ginea”
  • Võro: “Guinea”
  • Walloon: “Guinêye-Conacri”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guinea”
  • Welsh: “Gini”
  • Welsh: “Guinée”
  • Western Frisian: “Guinee”
  • Western Mari: “Гвиней”
  • Western Panjabi: “گنی”
  • Wolof: “Gine”
  • Wu Chinese: “幾內亞”
  • Yakut: “Гвинея”
  • Yakut: “Гуинея”
  • Yiddish: “גינע”
  • Yoruba: “Gene”
  • Yoruba: “gn”
  • Yoruba: “GUI”
  • Yoruba: “Guinea-Conakry”
  • Yoruba: “Guinea”
  • Yoruba: “Republic of Guinea”
  • Yue Chinese: “畿內亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Guinee”
  • Zhuang: “Guinea”
  • Zulu: “i-Guinea”
  • Zulu: “IGini”
  • “GIN”
  • “ma Kine”

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