Guinea

Republic o Guinea République de Guinée (French)
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Motto: "Travail, Justice, Solidarité" (French) "Wirk, Juistice, Solidarity"
Anthem: Liberté  (French) Freedom
Location o  Guinea  (daurk blue) – in Africae  (licht blue & daurk grey) – in the African Union  (licht blue)
Capital an lairgest ceety	Conakry 9°31′N 13°42′W
Offeecial leids	French
Vernacular leids	Maninka Fula Susu
Ethnic groups	37.0% Fula 36.0% Mandinka 13.0% Susu 5.0% Kissi 5.0% Kpelle 4.0% ithers
Demonym	Guinean
Govrenment	Presidential republic
• Preses	Alpha Condé
• Prime Meenister	Mamady Youla
Legislatur	Naitional Assembly
Unthirldom
• frae Fraunce	2 October 1958
Aurie
• Tot	245,836 km2 (94,918 sq mi) (78t)
• Watter (%)	negligible
Population
• 2000 estimate	8,746,128 (81st)
• 2014 census	11,628,972
• Density	40.9/km2 (105.9/sq mi) (164t)
GDP (PPP)	2016 estimate
• Total	$16.214 billion
• Per capita	$1,281
GDP (nominal)	2016 estimate
• Total	$7.067 billion
• Per capita	$558
Gini (1994)	70.3 very heich
HDI (2015)	0.414 law · 183t
Siller	Guinean franc (GNF)
Time zone	GMT (UTC+0)
Drives on the	richt
Cawin code	+224
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. 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.