Guide to Guinea
Must See Guinea
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At a glance
In Guinea you can trek through beautiful highland scenery and track wildlife in the jungles of the southeast. But the country still reels from a regime that turned its back on liberté, égalité and fraternité and embraced Maoist ideology in the 1950s.
Fast Facts
- Full name:
- Republic of Guinea
- Capital city:
- Conakry (pop 1.743 million)
- Area:
- 245,855 sq km / 94,925 sq miles
- Population:
- 9,730,220
- Time Zone:
- GMT/UTC 0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
- Language:
- French (official)
Fulah (other)
Susu (other)
- Religion:
- Muslim
- Currency:
- Syli or Guinean Franc
- Electricity:
- 220V 50Hz
- Electric plug details:
- European plug with two circular metal pins
