Outline of Guinea - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

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).

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 1,752 m (5,748 ft)

Low: North Atlantic Ocean 0 m

Land boundaries: 3,399 km

Coastline: North Atlantic Ocean 320 km

Environment of Guinea

Climate of Guinea

Renewable energy in Guinea

Geology of Guinea

Protected areas of Guinea

Biosphere reserves in Guinea

National parks 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

Islands of Guinea

Lakes of Guinea

Mountains of Guinea

Volcanoes in Guinea

Rivers of Guinea

Waterfalls of Guinea

Valleys 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

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

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

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

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:

Law and order in Guinea

Law of 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

Freedom of religion in Guinea

Law enforcement in Guinea

Military of Guinea

Command

Commander-in-chief:

Ministry of Defence of Guinea

Forces

Army of Guinea

Navy of Guinea

Air Force of Guinea

Special forces of Guinea

Military history of Guinea

Military ranks of 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