Outline of Guinea

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.

[1] 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).