The Niger, Senegal and Gambia rivers all rise in its Fouta Djallon highlands.
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Guinea
Republic of Guinea ยท Guinรฉe
Africa
ยท Western Africa
0Population
245.86Kkmยฒ of land
$963GDP / person
ConakryCapital
- ISO codes
- GN ยท GIN
- Density
- 52 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- French
- Currency
- Guinean franc (GNF)
- Dial code
- +224
- Internet domain
- .gn
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 10.6190ยฐ N, 10.0160ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Guinean
- UN region
- Western Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $12.3B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 6
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By the numbers
How Guinea stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
74th
of 242 ยท 0.17% of world population
Land area
80th
of 242 ยท 0.16% of world land
GDP per person
213th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
151st
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Guinea
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 12,771,246 people, the 74th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.17 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 245,857 kmยฒ, making it the 80th largest country here - about 8.1 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 52 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Conakry, at 9.53ยฐ N, 13.68ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 1,494,000.
Shares land borders with 6 countries: Cรดte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali and Senegal (and 1 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Conakry.
The currency is the Guinean franc (GNF, symbol Fr).
The official language is French.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Conakry
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UTC+00:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Conakry
Conakry
9.5335ยฐ N, 13.6822ยฐ W
1.49M
2
Nzรฉrรฉkorรฉ
Nzerekore
7.7600ยฐ N, 8.8300ยฐ W
168.12K
3
Kankan
Kankan
10.3900ยฐ N, 9.3100ยฐ W
114.01K
Land neighbours
6 countries share a border with Guinea.