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Guinea
Location marker · geographic overview
11° N / 10° WTHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Conakry
- Population
- 14,754,785 2024
- Area
- 245,857 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- French
- Currency
- Guinean franc (GNF)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Guinea
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.
Landscape & landmarks
In Conakry, there is the National Museum which highlights the distinct ethnic tribes in Guinea and various traditional instruments, masks, etc.Read the see section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-08-04. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Western Africa
- Calling code
- +224
- Internet domain
- .gn
- Land border codes
- CIV, GNB, LBR, MLI, SEN, SLE
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .gn. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.