Outline of Guinea

The Flag of Guinea

The Coat of arms of Guinea

The location of Guinea

An enlargeable map of the Republic 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[]

An enlargeable relief map of Guinea

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[]

An enlargeable topographic map 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[]

An enlargeable satellite image 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

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]

African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
African Development Bank Group (AfDB)
African Union (AU)
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Group of 77 (G77)
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
International Criminal Court (ICCt)
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
International Development Association (IDA)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRCS)
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
International Labour Organization (ILO)
International Maritime Organization (IMO)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (correspondent)
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRM)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO)
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
Nonaligned Movement (NAM)
Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
United Nations (UN)
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO)
United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS)
United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI)
Universal Postal Union (UPU)
World Confederation of Labour (WCL)
World Customs Organization (WCO)
World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
World Trade Organization (WTO)

Law and order in Guinea[]

Law of 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