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Guinea-Bissau
About Guinea
Guinea is a country in West Africa, one of the 54 countries of Africa on GlobeQuizz. Its full official name is Republic of Guinea. In Arabic, the name is written غينيا, and the capital كوناكري. Its geographic centre lies in the Northern and Western hemispheres.
The capital of Guinea is Conakry. Conakry lies at about 10° north and 14° west. The official language of Guinea is French. Its currency is the Guinean Franc, with the symbol Fr and the international code GNF.
Guinea covers about 245,857 square kilometres, which puts it 77th by area among the 195 countries on GlobeQuizz. It shares land borders with 6 countries: Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau. The largest of these neighbours by area is Mali. Other countries in West Africa include Niger, Mauritania, and Nigeria. Its flag is easy to confuse with the flags of Mali, Senegal, and Cameroon, a classic trap in the Hard level of the flags quiz. To practise flags, capitals and currencies, play the Africa quiz on GlobeQuizz, which mixes Guinea with the other countries of the same region.