Outline of Guinea



The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Guinea:

Guinea – country located in West Africa, that was formerly known as French Guinea. Guinea's territory has a curved shape, with its base at the Atlantic Ocean, inland to the east, and turning south. The base borders Guinea-Bissau and Senegal to the north, and Mali to the north and north-east; the inland part borders Côte d'Ivoire to the south-east, Liberia to the south, and Sierra Leone to the west of the southern tip. Its water sources include the Niger, Senegal, and Gambia rivers. Guinea is sometimes called Guinea-Conakry (Conakry being its capital) to differentiate it from the neighboring Guinea-Bissau (whose capital is Bissau).

General reference

 * Pronunciation:
 * Common English country names: Guinea or Guinea-Conakry
 * Official English country name: The Republic of Guinea
 * Common endonym(s):
 * Official endonym(s):
 * Adjectival(s): Guinean
 * Demonym(s):
 * ISO country codes: GN, GIN, 324
 * ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:GN
 * Internet country code top-level domain: .gn

Geography of Guinea


Geography of Guinea
 * Guinea is: a country
 * Population of Guinea: 9,370,000 - 87th most populous country
 * Area of Guinea: 245,857 km2
 * Atlas of Guinea

Location

 * Guinea is situated within the following regions:
 * Northern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere
 * Africa
 * West Africa
 * Time zone: Coordinated Universal Time UTC+00
 * Extreme points of Guinea
 * High: Mont Nimba 1752 m
 * Low: North Atlantic Ocean 0 m
 * Land boundaries: 3,399 km
 * 🇲🇱 Mali 858 km
 * 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 652 km
 * Cote d'Ivoire 610 km
 * 🇱🇷 Liberia 563 km
 * 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau 386 km
 * 🇸🇳 Senegal 330 km
 * Coastline: North Atlantic Ocean 320 km

Environment of Guinea



 * Climate of Guinea
 * Geology of Guinea
 * Protected areas of Guinea
 * Wildlife of Guinea
 * Fauna of Guinea
 * Birds of Guinea
 * Insects of Guinea
 * Butterflies of Guinea
 * Moths of Guinea
 * Mammals of Guinea

Natural geographic features of Guinea

 * Glaciers in Guinea: none
 * Forests in Guinea
 * Upper Guinean forests
 * Western Guinean lowland forests
 * Guinean montane forests
 * Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
 * Guinean mangroves
 * Rivers of Guinea
 * World Heritage Sites in Guinea

Regions of Guinea

 * Natural regions of Guinea

Ecoregions of Guinea
Ecoregions in Guinea – the following ecoregions lie partially within Guinea:
 * Upper Guinean forests
 * Western Guinean lowland forests
 * Guinean montane forests
 * Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
 * West Sudanian savanna
 * Guinean mangroves

Administrative divisions of Guinea
Administrative divisions of Guinea
 * Regions of Guinea
 * Prefectures of Guinea
 * Sub-prefectures of Guinea

Regions of Guinea
Regions of Guinea

Prefectures of Guinea
Prefectures of Guinea

Municipalities of Guinea

 * Capital of Guinea: Conakry
 * Cities of Guinea

Demography of Guinea
Demographics of Guinea

Government and politics of Guinea
Politics of Guinea
 * Form of government: presidential republic
 * Capital of Guinea: Conakry
 * Elections in Guinea
 * Guinean general election, 1968
 * Guinean general election, 1974
 * Guinean legislative election, 1963
 * Guinean legislative election, 1980
 * Guinean legislative election, 1995
 * Guinean legislative election, 2002
 * Guinean legislative election, 2013
 * Political parties in Guinea

Branches of the government of Guinea
Government of Guinea

Executive branch of the government of Guinea

 * Head of state: President of Guinea
 * Head of government: President of Guinea
 * Cabinet of Guinea
 * Cabinet of the First Republic of Guinea – governing body of Guinea from independence on 28 September 1958 until the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré on 26 March 1984, followed by a bloodless coup by Colonel Lansana Conté on 5 April 1984.
 * Ministers of Justice of Guinea

Legislative branch of the government of Guinea

 * National Assembly (unicameral)

Judicial branch of the government of Guinea

 * Ministers of Justice of Guinea

Foreign relations of Guinea
Foreign relations of Guinea
 * Diplomatic missions in Guinea
 * Diplomatic missions of Guinea
 * Embassy of Guinea in Washington, D.C.
 * Embassy of Guinea, London

International organization membership
The Republic of Guinea is a member of:


 * African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
 * African Development Bank Group (AfDB)
 * African Union (AU)
 * Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
 * Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
 * Group of 77 (G77)
 * International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
 * International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
 * International Criminal Court (ICCt)
 * International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
 * International Development Association (IDA)
 * International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRCS)
 * International Finance Corporation (IFC)
 * International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
 * International Labour Organization (ILO)
 * International Maritime Organization (IMO)
 * International Monetary Fund (IMF)
 * International Olympic Committee (IOC)
 * International Organization for Migration (IOM)
 * International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (correspondent)
 * International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRM)
 * International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
 * International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO)
 * International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)


 * Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
 * Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
 * Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
 * Nonaligned Movement (NAM)
 * Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)
 * Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
 * Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
 * United Nations (UN)
 * United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
 * United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
 * United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
 * United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
 * United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO)
 * United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS)
 * United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI)
 * Universal Postal Union (UPU)
 * World Confederation of Labour (WCL)
 * World Customs Organization (WCO)
 * World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)
 * World Health Organization (WHO)
 * World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
 * World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
 * World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
 * World Trade Organization (WTO)

Law and order in Guinea
Law of Guinea


 * Law Enforcement in Guinea
 * Constitution of Guinea
 * Guinean constitutional referendum, 1958
 * Guinean constitutional referendum, 1990
 * Guinean constitutional referendum, 2001
 * Crime in Guinea
 * Human trafficking in Guinea
 * Polygamy in Guinea
 * Human rights in Guinea
 * LGBT rights in Guinea

Military of Guinea
Military of Guinea
 * Command
 * Commander-in-chief:
 * Forces
 * Army of Guinea
 * Air Force of Guinea

Local government in Guinea
Local government in Guinea

History of Guinea, by period
History of Guinea
 * Early history – see history of West Africa
 * Sahelian kingdoms – the area which is now Guinea lay on the fringes of these Kingdoms
 * Imamate of Futa Jallon – West African theocratic state based in the Futa Jallon highlands of modern Guinea. The state was founded around 1727 by a Fulani jihad and became part of the French colonial empire in 1896.
 * Wassoulou Empire – short-lived (1878–1898) empire of West Africa built from the conquests of Dyula ruler Samori Touré and destroyed by the French colonial army.
 * Anglo-French Convention of 1882 – confirmed the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone around Conakry and Freetown.
 * Rivières du Sud – administrative division of colonial French West Africa
 * French Guinea – colony until 1958, part of French West Africa
 * Colonial governors of French Guinea
 * Independence – in 1958, the colony chose independence from France, and named itself Guinea
 * Ahmed Sékou Touré – ruled as president from 1958 to 1984
 * Cabinet of the First Republic of Guinea – governing body of Guinea from independence on 28 September 1958 until the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré on 26 March 1984, followed by a bloodless coup by Colonel Lansana Conté on 5 April 1984.
 * Lansana Conté – took over in a bloodless coup, and ruled as president from 1984 to 2008
 * 2007 Guinean general strike
 * 2008 Guinean coup d'état – Moussa Dadis Camara seized control from 23 December 2008 to 3 December 2009
 * National Assembly of Guinea dissolved
 * 2008 Guinean military unrest
 * 2009 Guinea mine collapse
 * Alpha Condé – elected president in 2010, survived an attempted coup less than a year later
 * Guinean legislative election, 2013 – National Assembly of Guinea re-established
 * 2014 in Guinea
 * Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa

History of Guinea, by region

 * Timeline of Conakry

History of Guinea, by subject

 * Massacres in Guinea

Culture of Guinea
Culture of Guinea
 * Architecture of Guinea
 * List of buildings and structures in Guinea
 * Cuisine of Guinea
 * Languages of Guinea
 * Music of Guinea
 * Camayenne Sofa
 * National symbols of Guinea
 * Coat of arms of Guinea
 * Flag of Guinea
 * National anthem of Guinea
 * People of Guinea
 * List of Guineans
 * Public holidays in Guinea
 * Religion in Guinea
 * Christianity in Guinea
 * Roman Catholicism in Guinea
 * List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Guinea
 * Episcopal Conference of Guinea
 * Hinduism in Guinea
 * Islam in Guinea
 * Scouting and Guiding in Guinea
 * World Heritage Sites in Guinea

Art in Guinea

 * Cinema of Guinea
 * List of Guinean films
 * Literature of Guinea
 * List of Guinean writers
 * Music of Guinea

Sports in Guinea
Sports in Guinea
 * Football in Guinea
 * Football clubs in Guinea
 * Guinea at the Olympics
 * List of Guinean records in athletics
 * Guinea national basketball team

Economy and infrastructure of Guinea
Economy of Guinea
 * Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007): 138th (one hundred and thirty eighth)
 * Agriculture in Guinea
 * Banking in Guinea
 * Banks in Guinea
 * Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea – located in Conakry
 * Communications in Guinea
 * Postage stamps and postal history of Guinea
 * Telecommunications in Guinea
 * Internet in Guinea
 * Telephone numbers in Guinea
 * Companies of Guinea
 * Supermarket chains in Guinea
 * Currency of Guinea: Franc
 * ISO 4217: GNF
 * Energy in Guinea
 * Power stations in Guinea
 * Health care in Guinea
 * Mining in Guinea
 * Trade unions in Guinea
 * Transport in Guinea
 * Airports in Guinea
 * Rail transport in Guinea
 * Railway stations in Guinea

Education in Guinea
Education in Guinea
 * National Library of Guinea
 * Schools in Guinea
 * Universities in Guinea

Health in Guinea
Health in Guinea
 * HIV/AIDS in Guinea