Haute Guinee
Haute Guinee 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.Photo: Yakoo1986, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kankan and National Park of the Upper Niger.
Kankan
Photo: Lancine.kounfantoh.fofana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kankan is the largest city in Guinea in land area, and the second largest in population, with a population of 410,542 people as of 2026. The city is located in eastern Guinea about 555 kilometres east of the national capital Conakry.
National Park of the Upper Niger
Photo: Yakoo1986, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Park of Upper Niger is a national park in Guinea 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 West Africa as a whole.
Haute Guinee
- Type: Region
- Description: Guinea natural region
- Also known as: “Haute-Guinee” and “Upper Guinea”
- Category: natural region
- Location: Guinea, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Haute Guinee” goes by many names.
- 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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