Guinea
Coordinates: 11°N 10°W / 11°N 10°W
Republic o Guinea République de Guinée (French) | |
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Motto: "Travail, Justice, Solidarité" (Script error: The function "name_from_code" does not exist.) "Wirk, Juistice, Solidarity" | |
![]() 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 | Alpha Condé |
Mamady Youla | |
Legislatur | Naitional Assembly |
Unthirldom | |
• frae Fraunce | 2 October 1958 |
Aurie | |
• Total | 245,836 km2 (94,918 sq mi) (78t) |
• Water (%) | negligible |
Population | |
• 2000 estimate | 8,746,128[2] (81st) |
• 2014 census | 11,628,972 |
• Density | 40.9/km2 (105.9/sq mi) (164t) |
GDP (PPP) | 2016 estimate |
• Total | $16.214 billion[3] |
• Per capita | $1,281[3] |
GDP (nominal) | 2016 estimate |
• Tot | $7.067 billion[3] |
• Per capita | $558[3] |
Gini (1994) | 70.3 verra heich |
HDI (2015) | ![]() law · 183t |
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.[5] 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
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ignored (help) - ↑ Central Intelligence Agency (2009). "Guinea". The World Factbook. Retrieved 28 Januar 2010.
- ↑ a b c d "Guinea". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 18 Apryle 2012.
- ↑ "2016 Human Development Report" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2016. Retrieved 21 Mairch 2017.
- ↑ 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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- Kintras in Africae
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- Economic Community o Wast African States
- French-speakin kintars
- Least Developed Kintras
- Member states o La Francophonie
- Member states o the Organisation o Islamic Cooperation
- States an territories established in 1958