The Flag of Guinea

The Coat of arms of Guinea

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Guinea:

Guinea – country located in West Africa, that was formerly known as French Guinea.^[1] Guinea's territory has a curved shape, with its base at the Atlantic Ocean, inland to the east, and turning south. The base borders Guinea-Bissau and Senegal to the north, and Mali to the north and north-east; the inland part borders Côte d'Ivoire to the south-east, Liberia to the south, and Sierra Leone to the west of the southern tip. Its water sources include the Niger, Senegal, and Gambia rivers. Guinea is sometimes called Guinea-Conakry (Conakry being its capital) to differentiate it from the neighboring Guinea-Bissau (whose capital is Bissau).

General reference

• Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪni/
• Common English country names: Guinea or Guinea-Conakry
• Official English country name: The Republic of Guinea
• Common endonym(s):
• Official endonym(s):
• Adjectival(s): Guinean
• Demonym(s):
• ISO country codes: GN, GIN, 324
• ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:GN
• Internet country code top-level domain: .gn

Geography of Guinea

Geography of Guinea

• Guinea is: a country
• Population of Guinea: 9,370,000 - 87th most populous country
• Area of Guinea: 245,857 km²
• Atlas of Guinea

Location

• Guinea is situated within the following regions:
  • Northern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere
  • Africa
    • West Africa
• Time zone: Coordinated Universal Time UTC+00
• Extreme points of Guinea
  • High: Mont Nimba 1,752 m (5,748 ft)
  • Low: North Atlantic Ocean 0 m
• Land boundaries: 3,399 km

   Mali 858 km

   Sierra Leone 652 km

   Cote d'Ivoire 610 km

   Liberia 563 km

   Guinea-Bissau 386 km

   Senegal 330 km

  • Coastline: North Atlantic Ocean 320 km

Environment of Guinea

• Climate of Guinea
• Geology of Guinea
• Protected areas of Guinea
• Wildlife of Guinea
  • Fauna of Guinea
    • Birds of Guinea
    • Insects of Guinea
      • Butterflies of Guinea
      • Moths of Guinea
    • Mammals of Guinea

Natural geographic features of Guinea

• Glaciers in Guinea: none ^[2]
• Forests in Guinea
  • Upper Guinean forests
    • Western Guinean lowland forests
    • Guinean montane forests
  • Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
• Guinean mangroves
• Rivers of Guinea
• World Heritage Sites in Guinea

Regions of Guinea

• Natural regions of Guinea

Ecoregions of Guinea

Ecoregions in Guinea – the following ecoregions lie partially within Guinea:

• Upper Guinean forests
  • Western Guinean lowland forests
  • Guinean montane forests
• Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
• West Sudanian savanna
• Guinean mangroves

Administrative divisions of Guinea

Administrative divisions of Guinea

• Regions of Guinea
  • Prefectures of Guinea
    • Sub-prefectures of Guinea

Regions of Guinea

Regions of Guinea

Prefectures of Guinea

Prefectures of Guinea

Municipalities of Guinea

• Capital of Guinea: Conakry
• Cities of Guinea

Demography of Guinea

Demographics of Guinea

Government and politics of Guinea

Politics of Guinea

• Form of government: presidential republic
• Capital of Guinea: Conakry
• Elections in Guinea
  • Guinean general election, 1968
  • Guinean general election, 1974
  • Guinean legislative election, 1963
  • Guinean legislative election, 1980
  • Guinean legislative election, 1995
  • Guinean legislative election, 2002
  • Guinean legislative election, 2013
• Political parties in Guinea

Branches of the government of Guinea

Government of Guinea

Executive branch of the government of Guinea

• Head of state: President of Guinea
• Head of government: President of Guinea
• Cabinet of Guinea
  • Cabinet of the First Republic of Guinea – governing body of Guinea from independence on 28 September 1958 until the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré on 26 March 1984, followed by a bloodless coup by Colonel Lansana Conté on 5 April 1984.
  • Ministers of Justice of Guinea

Legislative branch of the government of Guinea

• National Assembly (unicameral)

Judicial branch of the government of Guinea

• Ministers of Justice of Guinea

Foreign relations of Guinea

Foreign relations of Guinea

• Diplomatic missions in Guinea
• Diplomatic missions of Guinea
  • Embassy of Guinea in Washington, D.C.
  • Embassy of Guinea, London

International organization membership

The Republic of Guinea is a member of:^[1]

Law and order in Guinea

Law of Guinea

• Law Enforcement in Guinea
• Constitution of Guinea
  • Guinean constitutional referendum, 1958
  • Guinean constitutional referendum, 1990
  • Guinean constitutional referendum, 2001
• Crime in Guinea
  • Human trafficking in Guinea
  • Polygamy in Guinea
• Human rights in Guinea
  • LGBT rights in Guinea

Military of Guinea

Military of Guinea

• Command
  • Commander-in-chief:
• Forces
  • Army of Guinea
  • Air Force of Guinea

Local government in Guinea

Local government in Guinea

History of Guinea

History of Guinea, by period

History of Guinea

• Early history – see history of West Africa
  • Sahelian kingdoms – the area which is now Guinea lay on the fringes of these Kingdoms
• Imamate of Futa Jallon – West African theocratic state based in the Futa Jallon highlands of modern Guinea. The state was founded around 1727 by a Fulani jihad and became part of the French colonial empire in 1896.
• Wassoulou Empire – short-lived (1878–1898) empire of West Africa built from the conquests of Dyula ruler Samori Touré and destroyed by the French colonial army.
• Anglo-French Convention of 1882 – confirmed the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone around Conakry and Freetown.
• Rivières du Sud – administrative division of colonial French West Africa
• French Guinea – colony until 1958, part of French West Africa
  • Colonial governors of French Guinea
• Independence – in 1958, the colony chose independence from France, and named itself Guinea
• Ahmed Sékou Touré – ruled as president from 1958 to 1984
  • Cabinet of the First Republic of Guinea – governing body of Guinea from independence on 28 September 1958 until the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré on 26 March 1984, followed by a bloodless coup by Colonel Lansana Conté on 5 April 1984.
• Lansana Conté – took over in a bloodless coup, and ruled as president from 1984 to 2008
• 2007 Guinean general strike
• 2008 Guinean coup d'état – Moussa Dadis Camara seized control from 23 December 2008 to 3 December 2009
  • National Assembly of Guinea dissolved
• 2008 Guinean military unrest
• 2009 Guinea mine collapse
• Alpha Condé – elected president in 2010, survived an attempted coup less than a year later
• Guinean legislative election, 2013 – National Assembly of Guinea re-established
• 2014 in Guinea
  • Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa

History of Guinea, by regionedit

• Timeline of Conakry

History of Guinea, by subjectedit

• Massacres in Guinea

Culture of Guineaedit

Culture of Guinea

• Architecture of Guinea
  • List of buildings and structures in Guinea
• Cuisine of Guinea
• Languages of Guinea
• Music of Guinea
  • Camayenne Sofa
• National symbols of Guinea
  • Coat of arms of Guinea
  • Flag of Guinea
  • National anthem of Guinea
• People of Guinea
  • List of Guineans
• Public holidays in Guinea
• Religion in Guinea
  • Christianity in Guinea
    • Roman Catholicism in Guinea
      • List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Guinea
    • Episcopal Conference of Guinea
  • Hinduism in Guinea
  • Islam in Guinea
• Scouting and Guiding in Guinea
• World Heritage Sites in Guinea

Art in Guineaedit

• Cinema of Guinea
  • List of Guinean films
• Literature of Guinea
  • List of Guinean writers
• Music of Guinea

Sports in Guineaedit

Sports in Guinea

• Football in Guinea
  • Football clubs in Guinea
• Guinea at the Olympics
• List of Guinean records in athletics
• Guinea national basketball team

Economy and infrastructure of Guineaedit

Economy of Guinea

• Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007): 138th (one hundred and thirty eighth)
• Agriculture in Guinea
• Banking in Guinea
  • Banks in Guinea
    • Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea – located in Conakry
• Communications in Guinea
  • Postage stamps and postal history of Guinea
  • Telecommunications in Guinea
    • Internet in Guinea
    • Telephone numbers in Guinea
• Companies of Guinea
  • Supermarket chains in Guinea
• Currency of Guinea: Franc
  • ISO 4217: GNF
• Energy in Guinea
  • Power stations in Guinea
• Health care in Guinea
• Mining in Guinea
• Trade unions in Guinea
• Transport in Guinea
  • Airports in Guinea
  • Rail transport in Guinea
    • Railway stations in Guinea

Education in Guineaedit

Education in Guinea

• National Library of Guinea
• Schools in Guinea
• Universities in Guinea

Health in Guineaedit

Health in Guinea

• HIV/AIDS in Guinea

See alsoedit

Guinea

• Index of Guinea-related articles
• List of Guinea-related topics
• List of international rankings
• Member state of the United Nations
• Outline of Africa
• Outline of geography

Referencesedit

External linksedit

Wikimedia Atlas of Guinea

• Official Government Website (French)