Outline of Guinea

General reference

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

  Geography of Guinea

• Guinea is: a country
• Population of Guinea: 9,370,000 - 87th most populous country
• Area of Guinea: 245,857 km²
• :commons:Atlas of Guinea|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
• * Low: North Atlantic Ocean 0 m
• Land boundaries: 3,399 km
• : 858 km
• : 652 km
• : 610 km
• : 563 km
• : 386 km
• : 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

• Upper Guinean forests
• * Western Guinean lowland forests
• * Guinean montane forests
• Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
• West Sudanian savanna
• Guinean mangroves

  Administrative divisions of Guinea

• Regions of Guinea
• * Prefectures of Guinea
• ** Sub-prefectures of Guinea

  Regions of Guinea

Prefectures of Guinea

Municipalities of Guinea

• Capital of Guinea: Conakry
• Cities of Guinea

  Demography of Guinea

Government and 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

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

  Judicial branch of the government of Guinea

• Ministers of Justice 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

• African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States
• African Development Bank Group
• African Union
• Economic Community of West African States
• Food and Agriculture Organization
• Group of 77
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• International Civil Aviation Organization
• International Criminal Court
• International Criminal Police Organization
• International Development Association
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• International Finance Corporation
• International Fund for Agricultural Development
• International Labour Organization
• International Maritime Organization
• International Monetary Fund
• International Olympic Committee
• International Organization for Migration
• International Organization for Standardization
• International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
• International Telecommunication Union
• International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
• International Trade Union Confederation
• Inter-Parliamentary Union
• Islamic Development Bank
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
• Nonaligned Movement
• Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
• Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
• Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
• United Nations
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
• United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization
• United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
• United Nations Mission in the Sudan
• United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire
• Universal Postal Union
• World Confederation of Labour
• World Customs Organization
• World Federation of Trade Unions
• World Health Organization
• World Intellectual Property Organization
• World Meteorological Organization
• World Tourism Organization
• World Trade Organization

  Law and order 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

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

  Local government in Guinea

History of Guinea

History of Guinea, by period

• 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 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

• Architecture of Guinea
• * List of buildings and structures in Guinea
• Cuisine of Guinea
• Languages of Guinea
• 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

• Football in Guinea
• * Football clubs in Guinea
• Guinea at the Olympics
• List of Guinean records in athletics

  Economy and infrastructure of Guinea

• Economic rank, by nominal GDP : 138th
• 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

• National Library of Guinea
• Schools in Guinea
• Universities in Guinea

  Health in Guinea

• HIV/AIDS in Guinea