Guinea
Guinea (officially Republic of Guinea) is a country in Western Africa, with its capital at Conakry, and is home to roughly 14.8M people.
French is the official language; the currency in circulation is Guinean franc (Fr); people from here are called Guinean.
- »Guinea holds a very large share of the world's bauxite reserves.
- »The Niger, Gambia and Senegal rivers all rise in the Guinean highlands.
Guinea touches six neighbours: Guinea-Bissau to the northwest, Ivory Coast to the southeast, Liberia to the south, Mali to the northeast, Senegal to the northwest and Sierra Leone to the southwest. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Conakry sits on Tombo island and the Kaloum peninsula, and grew as a port for shipping out the country's bauxite and iron.
244,849 km² (94,537 sq mi), 77th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Uganda.
Population 14,754,785, 75th of 198 on file. That averages 60 per km² (156 per sq mi).
Red, yellow and green in vertical bands, the pan-African colours arranged after the French tricolour, marking independence from France in 1958.