Guinea Country Info - Africa

Description and Basic Information

Guinea with its capital Conakry is located in Africa (Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean). It covers some 245,858 square kilometres (slightly smaller than Oregon) with 10,211,000 citizens. French is the language spoken by people in Guinea. Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau and Mali are bordering countries.

Guinea is a former French colony that borders Guinea-Bissau and Senegal to the north, Mali on the north and north-east, Côte d'Ivoire to the east and Liberia and Sierra Leone to the south. Guinea is a remarkable country with very warm, genuine people but little infrastructure. While they have tremendous natural resources available to them (which includes around one half of the world's reserves of bauxite, and many major gold, jewel, and metal industries), they rate very poorly in the UN's quality of life index. Guinea is roughly the size of the United Kingdom.

Pictures from Capital (Conakry)

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About Guinea

The terrain offers generally flat coastal plain, hilly to mountainous interior. The average density of population is about 41 per km². The climate in Guinea can be described as generally hot and humid with monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds, dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds. Possible natural disasters include hot, dry, dusty harmattan haze may reduce visibility during dry season.

To reach someone in Guinea dial +224 prior to a number. There are 22,000 installed telephones. And there are 5,607,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".gn". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 220V - 50Hz. The following list are the 34 regions/states in Guinea we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Guinean population grew at a rate of 2.65% (or by 273,483 citizens). With 110,674 deaths and 384,157 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 2.65%. 0 persons more in total immigrated to the country than emmigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Guinea: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.