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Encyclopedia > Guinea (disambiguation)
Look up Guinea, guinea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Guinea is a Berber term meaning "land of the blacks". It may refer to the following: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... Afro-Asiatic - Berber The Berber languages (or Tamazight) are a group of closely related languages mainly spoken in Morocco and Algeria. ...


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Former European colonies in Africa The Gulf of Guinea is the part of the Atlantic southwest of Africa. ... Guinea is a traditional name for the region of Africa that lies along the Gulf of Guinea. ... Map showing West New Guinea region Western New Guinea is the western half of the island of New Guinea. ... Gloucester County is an historical Chesapeake county located on the Middle Peninsula of the U.S. state — officially, Commonwealth — of Virginia. ...

Guinea may also be: French Guinea (in West Africa) became independent from France in 1958 (see Guinea). ... Portuguese Guinea was the name for what is today Guinea-Bissau from 1446 to September 10, 1974. ... Spanish Guinea was an African colony of Spain that became the independent nation of Equatorial Guinea. ...

  • Guinea Pig, a genus of rodents
  • Guineafowl, a bird species
  • Guinea (British coin), an old British coin and currency unit with a value of 21 shillings
  • Guinea (ethnic slur), an offensive term for someone of Italian descent
  • Guinea (band), a puertorrican psychedelic, experimental, electro-acoustic, indie band from the underground scene

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Gn - definition of Gn in Encyclopedia (229 words)
Independent from France since 1958, Guinea did not hold democratic elections until 1993 when Gen. Lansana Conté (head of the military government) was elected president in disputed balloting.
Guinea is divided into 33 prefectures and one special zone (the capital, Conakry).
Guinea possesses over 25% of the world's bauxite reserves and is the second largest bauxite producer.
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