Haute Guinee

Haute Guinee is a region of . 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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Kankan and National Park of the Upper Niger.

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is the largest city in in land area, and the second largest in population, with a population of 410,542 people as at the Census of 1 July 2025.

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The National Park of Upper Niger is a in that was gazetted in January 1997 with a core area of 554 km2. The park protects important tracts of forest and savannah, and is considered a conservation priority for as a whole.

Haute Guinee

Latitude
10.5° or 10° 30′ north
Longitude
-9.5° or 9° 30′ west
Elevation
404 metres (1,325 feet)
Open location code
7C2GGG22+22
Geo­Names ID
2420433
Wiki­data ID
Q301843
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Haute Guinee” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غينيا العليا”
  • Belarusian: “Верхняя Гвінея”
  • Chinese: “上几内亚”
  • Esperanto: “Supra Gvineo”
  • Finnish: “Ylä-Guinea”
  • French: “Haute Guinée”
  • French: “Haute-Guinée”
  • German: “Oberguinea”
  • Hungarian: “Felső-Guinea”
  • Italian: “Alta Guinea”
  • Italian: “Guinea alta”
  • Japanese: “上ギニア”
  • Japanese: “上部ギニア地方”
  • Lithuanian: “Aukštutinė Gvinėja”
  • N'Ko: “ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߬ ߛߊ߲ߘߐߟߊ”
  • Polish: “Górna Gwinea”
  • Russian: “Верхняя Гвинея”
  • Slovenian: “Gornja Gvineja”
  • Slovenian: “Zgornja Gvineja”
  • Swedish: “Övre Guinea”
  • Ukrainian: “Верхня Гвінея”

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