Capital of Guinea:
ConakryArea of Guinea: 245,857 km² (94,926 mi²) (
78th)
Population of Guinea: 14,754,785 (
75th) - (2024 est.)
Location: Guinea lies in western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone.
Languages of Guinea: French (official),
Pular,
Maninka,
Susu, other local languages
Religions of Guinea: Muslim Sunni 86.8%,
Christian 3.52%,
animist 9.42% (2023 est.)
Currency:
Guinean franc (
GNF)
Calling code: (
+224)
Organizations: United Nations
Border countries (6):
Cote d'Ivoire 816 km,
Guinea-Bissau 421 km,
Liberia 590 km,
Mali 1062 km,
Senegal 363 km,
Sierra Leone 794 km.
Coastline: North Atlantic Ocean 320 km
Maritime boundaries: Atlantic Ocean
Guinea (officially the
Republic of Guinea; French:
République de Guinée) — is a former French colony in West Africa. 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.
Guinea is a remarkable country with very warm, genuine people but little infrastructure. While they have tremendous natural resources available to them (which includes around one half of the world's reserves of bauxite, and many major gold, jewel, and metal deposits), they rate very poorly in the UN's quality of life index. Guinea is roughly the size of the United Kingdom.
The country is sometimes called
Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from
Guinea-Bissau and
Equatorial Guinea.
Administrative divisions (7) regions administrative (administrative regions)
and 1 gouvenorat (governorate)*:
Boke, Conakry*, Faranah, Kankan, Kindia, Labe, Mamou, N'Zerekore.
Natural resources: bauxite,
iron ore,
diamonds,
gold,
uranium, hydropower, fish, salt.