Guinea
Coordinates: 11°N 10°W / 11°N 10°W
Republic o Guinea République de Guinée (French) | |
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 Location o Guinea (daurk blue) – in Africae (licht blue & daurk grey) | |
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| Caipital and largest city | Conakry 9°31′N 13°42′W / 9.517°N 13.700°W |
| Offeecial leids | French |
| Vernacular leids | |
| Ethnic groups | |
| Demonym(s) | Guinean |
| Govrenment | Presidential republic |
• Preses | Mamady Doumbouya |
| Mohamed Béavogui | |
| Legislatur | Naitional Assembly |
| Unthirldom | |
• frae Fraunce | 2 October 1958 |
| Aurie | |
• Total | 245,836 km2 (94,918 sq mi) (78t) |
• Water (%) | negligible |
| Population | |
• 2021 estimate | 13,885,724 (76st) |
• 2014 census | 11,533,261 |
• Density | 40.9/km2 (105.9/sq mi) (164t) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2016 estimate |
• Total | $16.214 billion[2] |
• Per capita | $1,281[2] |
| GDP (nominal) | 2016 estimate |
• Tot | $7.067 billion[2] |
• Per capita | $558[2] |
| Gini (2012) | 33.7 medium |
| HDI (2019) |  0.477[3]law · 178t |
| Currency | Guinean franc (GNF) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
| Drivin side | richt |
| Cawin code | +224 |
| ISO 3166 code | GN |
| Internet TLD | .gn |
Guinea (/[unsupported input]ˈɡɪni/, officeeally the Republic o Guinea French: République de Guinée), is a kintra in Wast Africae. Umwhile kent as French Guinea (Guinée française), it is today sometimes cawed Guinea-Conakry tae distinguish it frae its neighbour Guinea-Bissau.[4] Conakry is the caipital, the seat o the naitional government, an the lairgest ceety.
Guinea haes amaist 246,000 square kilometres (94,981 sq mi). It forms a crescent bi curvin fre its wastren border on the Atlantic Ocean toward the east an the sooth. Its northren border is shared wi Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, an Mali, the soothren ane wi Sierra Leone, Liberie, an Côte d'Ivoire. The Niger River arises in Guinea an runs eastward.
Guinea's 10 million fowk belang tae twintie-fower ethnic groups. The maist prominent groups are the Fula (French: Peul; Fula: Fulɓe), Mandinka, an Susu.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ "Nations Online: Guinea – Republic of Guinea – West Africa". Nations Online. Archived frae the original on 3 Mey 2003. Retrieved 25 August 2014. Unknown parameter
|deadurl=ignored (help) - ↑ a b c d "Guinea". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 18 Apryle 2012.
- ↑ Human Development Report 2020 The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 15 December 2020. pp. 343–346. ISBN 978-92-1-126442-5. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ↑ See, for example, Univ. of Iowa map Archived 2009-02-05 at the Wayback Machine, Music Videos of Guinea Conakry – Clips Guineens, The Anglican Diocese of Guinea – Conakry, Canal France International's English-language page for Guinea Conakry Archived 2011-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
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