Guinea
Guinea is a traditional name for the region of the coast of West Africa which lies along the Gulf of Guinea. It is a naturally moist tropical forest or savanna that stretches along the coast and borders the Sahel belt in the north.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Daboase.
Daboase
Town
Daboase is a town in the western region of Ghana in West Africa and is the capital of Wassa East District, a district in the Western Region of Ghana.
Guinea
- Type: Region
- Description: traditional name for the coastal region of West Africa along the Gulf of Guinea, encompassing moist tropical forest and savanna zones bordering the Sahel to the north
- Category: locality
- Location: Mpohor, Western Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
5.15° or 5° 9′ north
Longitude
-1.75° or 1° 45′ west
Open location code
6CQW5722+22
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=region
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Guinea” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غينيا”
- Aragonese: “Guinea”
- Armenian: “Գվինեա (տարածաշրջան)”
- Armenian: “Գվինեա”
- Arpitan: “Guinê”
- Basque: “Ginea”
- Belarusian: “Гвінея”
- Belarusian: “Рэгіён Гвінея”
- Bengali: “গিনি”
- Bosnian: “Gvineja”
- Catalan: “Guinea”
- Chinese: “Guinea”
- Chinese: “几内亚”
- Chinese: “幾內亞”
- Chinese: “畿內亞”
- Croatian: “Gvineja”
- Czech: “Guinea”
- Czech: “tropická Afrika”
- Danish: “Guinea”
- Dutch: “Guinea”
- Esperanto: “Gvineo”
- Finnish: “Guinea”
- French: “Côte de Guinée”
- French: “Guinée”
- German: “Guinea”
- Hebrew: “גינאה”
- Hindi: “गिनी”
- Icelandic: “Gínea”
- Indonesian: “Guinea (wilayah)”
- Indonesian: “Guinea”
- Italian: “Guinea”
- Japanese: “ギニア”
- Kannada: “ಗಿನಿ (ಪ್ರದೇಶ)”
- Kannada: “ಗಿನಿ”
- Kashmiri: “گنی”
- Korean: “기니”
- Lithuanian: “Gvinėjos regionas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Guinea”
- N'Ko: “ߖߌ߬ߣߍ ߕߌ߲߬ߞߎߘߎ߲”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Guinea”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Guinearegionen”
- Norwegian: “Guinea”
- Ossetian: “Гвиней”
- Persian: “گینه (منطقه)”
- Persian: “گینه”
- Polish: “Gwinea”
- Portuguese: “Guiné”
- Romanian: “Guineea”
- Russian: “Гвинейский регион”
- Russian: “Гвинея”
- Rusyn: “Ґвінея”
- Serbian: “Gvineja”
- Serbian: “Гвинеја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gvineja”
- Spanish: “Guinea”
- Swahili: “Guinea”
- Swedish: “Guinea”
- Tatar: “Гвинея”
- Ukrainian: “Гвінея (регіон)”
- Ukrainian: “Гвінея”
- Urdu: “گنی”
- Venetian: “Guinea”
- Western Panjabi: “گنی (خطہ)”
- Western Panjabi: “گنی”
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