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Guinée (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 11 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 11.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 010 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -10.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Shares name with ancient kingdom to the south; Susu immigrated ca. 900 CE, established small kingdoms by 13th century; Muslims invaded 16th-19th centuries; under French control 19-20th centuries; part of Rivières du Sud and later of French West Africa in late 19th century; official language is French, though Fulani, Malinké, Susu, Kissi, Kpelle, Loma, Basari, and Koniagi are also spoken and taught in schools. |
Names: |
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| Guinée (preferred,C,V,Welsh)
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| Guinée (French-P,U,N)
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| République de Guinée (C,V,O,French)
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| Guinea (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Guinea (Indonesian)
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| Guinea (Latin)
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| Guinea (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Guinea (Danish)
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| Guinea (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Guinea (Finnish)
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| Guinea (Swedish)
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| Guinea (Romanian)
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| Guinea (Slovak)
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| Guinea (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Guinea (Catalan)
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| Guinea (Aragonese)
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| Guinea (Asturian)
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| Guinea (German)
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| Guinea (Low German)
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| Guinea (Czech)
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| Guinea (Dutch)
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| Guinea (Galician)
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| Guinea (Faroese)
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| Guinea (Italian)
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| Guinea (Estonian)
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| Guinea (Greenlandic)
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| Guinea (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Guinea (Romansh)
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| Guinea (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Guinea (North Ndebele)
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| Guinea (Norwegian)
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| Guinea (Pampanga)
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| Guinea (Northern Sami)
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| Guinea (Shona)
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| Guinea (Swahili (generic))
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| Guinea (Ido)
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| Guinea (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Republic of Guinea (C,O,English,U,N)
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| República de Guinea (C,O,Spanish,U)
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| Guinee (C,O,Dutch)
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| Guinee (Afrikaans)
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| Guiné (C,O,Portuguese)
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| Ghinea (C,O)
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| Гвинея (C,O,Bulgarian)
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| Гвинея (Russian-P,U)
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| Гвинейская Республика (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 几内亚 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 几内亚共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| غ اًَِ (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً غ اًَِ (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| GIN (C,O,ISO3L)
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| GN (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO324 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| GV (C,O,FIPS)
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| Guinean (C,O,English,U,A)
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| An Ghuine (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Französisch-Guinea (C,U)
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| Ghi-nê (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Ghi-nê (Guinea) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Ginɛ (C,U,Lingala)
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| Gine (C,U,Bambara)
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| Gine (Turkish)
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| Gine (Fulah)
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| Gine (Kikuyu)
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| Gine (Swahili (generic))
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| Ginea (C,U,Tagalog)
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| Ginea (Malagasy)
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| Ginea (Basque)
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| Ginea (Breton)
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| Gínea (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Ginëe (C,U,Sangho)
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| Gineja (C,U,Maltese)
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| Gini (C,U,Somali)
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| Gini (Nauruan)
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| Gini (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Gini (Akan)
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| Gini (Scots Gaelic)
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| Gini (Welsh)
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| Gini (Hausa)
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| Guine (C,U,Albanian)
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| Guinèa (C,U,Occitan)
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| Guinea - Guinée (C,U,Galician)
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| Guinean People’s Republic (C,U)
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| Guineea (C,U,Romanian)
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| Guinée-Conakry (C,U,French)
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| Guinée Française (C,U)
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| Guineja (C,U,Albanian)
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| Guini nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Guneya (C,U,Rundi)
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| Gvineja (C,U,Croatian)
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| Gvineja (Bosnian)
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| Gvineja (Latvian)
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| Gvineja (Slovene)
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| Gvinėja (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Gvineo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Gwinea (C,U,Polish)
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| Gyni (C,U,Cornish)
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| i-Guinea (C,U,Zulu)
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| Kini (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Ngine (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Orílẹ́ède Gene (C,U,Yoruba)
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| People’s Revolutionary Republic of Guinea (C,U)
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| Popular and Revolutionary Republic of Guinea (C,U)
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| Qvineya (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Revolutionary People’s Republic of Guinea (C,U)
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| Гвинеја (C,U,Serbian)
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| Гвинеја (Macedonian)
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| Гвінея (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Гвінея (Belarusian)
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| ۋىنېيە (C,U,Uyghur)
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| גינאה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| ጊኒ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ጊኒ (Amharic)
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| กินี (C,U,Thai)
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| גיניאה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Գվինեա (C,U,Armenian)
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| ກິວນີ (C,U,Lao)
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| گینه (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| கினியா (C,U,Tamil)
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| ประเทศกินี (C,U,Thai)
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| غينيا (C,U,Arabic)
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| ហ្គីណេ (C,U,Khmer)
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| ګیانا (C,U,Pashto)
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| ጊኔ (C,U,Amharic)
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| ギニア (C,U,Japanese)
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| ګونې (C,U,Pashto)
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| கினி (C,U,Tamil)
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| गिनी (C,U,Marathi)
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| गिनी (Sanskrit)
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| गिनी (Hindi)
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| गिनी (Nepali)
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| გვინეა (C,U,Georgian)
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| Γουινέα (C,U,Greek)
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| 기니 (C,U,Korean)
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| گنی (C,U,Urdu)
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| ഗ്വിനിയ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ဂီရာနာ (C,U,Burmese)
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| ಗಿನಿ (C,U,Kannada)
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| గినియా (C,U,Telugu)
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| گینێ (C,U,Kurdish)
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| গিনি (C,U,Bengali)
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| گوینیا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| ගිණියාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| ગિની (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ଗୁଏନେଆ (C,U,Odia)
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| གྷི་ནི་ཡ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| Ґвінея (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| ギニア共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| French Guinea (H,O)
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| Guinée française (H,V)
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| People's Revolutionary Republic of Guinea (H,O)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence 1958 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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French, 1849-1958 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Conakry .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Guinée, Conakry) [7000796] |
| historical connection .... |
Wassoulou Empire .......... (former nation/state/empire) |
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(World, Africa) [8711893] |
| member of .... |
French West Africa .......... (federation) |
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(World, Africa) [6002142] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1958 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| People's Revolutionary Republic of Guinea.......... |
[VP] |
| .................................................................... |
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 553-555 |
| People’s Revolutionary Republic of Guinea.......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 2420477 |
| Popular and Revolutionary Republic of Guinea.......... |
[VP] |
| ....................................................................... |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 2420477 |
| Revolutionary People’s Republic of Guinea.......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 2420477 |
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