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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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is the capital and largest city of Guinea and the economic, commercial and trade center for the area. of Guinea. Its population as of 2014 was 1.7 million.

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is the largest city in Guinea in land area, and the third largest in population, with a population of 198,013 people as of 2020. The city is located in eastern Guinea about 555 kilometres east of the national capital .

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is the fourth largest city in Guinea, located about 85 miles northeast of the nation's capital, . Its estimated population in 2008 was 181,126.

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Maritime Guinea, also known as Lower Guinea, is one of the four natural regions of Guinea. It is located in the west of the country, between the Atlantic Ocean and the plateau. , Guinea's capital and largest city, is located in the region.

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is a region of Guinea that includes the highland region of Fouta Djallon as well as the plains of the Tominé and Koulountou rivers.

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is a region of Guinea. It is composed of the Faranah and Kankan administrative regions of Guinea, and was home to about 3 million people in 2014.

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Guinée forestière is a forested mountainous region in southeastern Guinea, extending into northeastern . It is one of four natural regions into which Guinea is divided and covers 23% of the country.

Guinea

Latitude of center
10.29° or 10° 17′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
-11.12° or 11° 7′ 12″ west
Population
10,200,000
Area
245,857 km² (94,926 miles²)
Elevation
428 metres (1,404 feet)
Capital
Currency
Franc (GNF)
Phone code
.gn
Internet domain
224
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-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: “Guinea”
  • 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: “GIN”
  • Dutch: “GN”
  • 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”
  • Faroese: “Guinea”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Guinea”
  • Finnish: “Guinea”
  • Finnish: “Guinean tasavalta”
  • Fon: “Gineto”
  • Fon: “Ginetò”
  • French: “GN”
  • 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: “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: “Guinea”
  • Javanese: “Guinéa”
  • Kabiyè: “Kinee-Konakrii”
  • Kabyle: “Ginya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Guinea”
  • Kalmyk: “Гвинмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಗಿನಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gvineya”
  • 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: “Gîne”
  • 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”
  • 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: “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”
  • 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”
  • 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: “Republique de Guinee”
  • 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: “گائينا”
  • 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: “Republica de 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Guinea”
  • Tsonga: “Gineya”
  • 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 hoà Guinée”
  • 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: “Guinea”
  • Yue Chinese: “畿內亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Guinee”
  • Zhuang: “Guinea”
  • Zulu: “i-Guinea”
  • Zulu: “IGini”
  • “GIN”
  • “GN”
  • “Guinea”
  • “Gvėniejė”
  • “ma Kine”
  • “गिनी”

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