Guinea (disambiguation)

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This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same or a similar title.

Geography

  • Guinea (region) [r]: Coastal and tropical sub-Saharan region of West Africa, including (west-to-east) territories of Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. [e]
  • New Guinea [r]: World's second-largest island, located in the South-West Pacific and divided between two provinces of Indonesia and the state of Papua New Guinea. [e]

Countries

  • Equatorial Guinea [r]: Oil-rich country in central Africa comprising a mainland region and islands (pop. about 676,000). [e]
  • Guinea [r]: Country in sub-Saharan Africa which gained independence from France in 1958. [e]
  • Guinea-Bissau [r]: Republic located along the west coast of Africa, bounded by Senegal to the north and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west. [e]
  • Papua New Guinea [r]: A developing nation in Oceania, part of the Commonwealth of Nations, on whose islands and in whose waters were fought many major battles of the Second World War [e]

Other

See also