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Coat of Arms

Territory
245,836 km2 (77th)

Capital
Conakry

Language
French

Motto
'Work, Justice, Solidarity'

National Flower
Vernonia djalonensis






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Guinea Flag

Guinea, authoritatively the Republic of Guinea, is a west-beach front nation in West Africa. Some time ago known as French Guinea, the cutting edge nation is in some cases alluded to as Guinea-Conakry so as to recognize it from different nations with "Guinea" in the name and the eponymous district, for example, Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea. The sovereign territory of Guinea is a republic with a president that is legitimately chosen by the general population and is head of state and head of government. The unicameral Guinean National Assembly is the administrative body of the nation, and its individuals are additionally straightforwardly chosen by the general population. The nation is named after the Guinea area. Guinea is a customary name for the area of Africa that lies along the Gulf of Guinea. It extends north through the forested tropical locales and finishes at the Sahel. The English expression Guinea comes straightforwardly from the Portuguese word Guinテゥ, which developed in the mid-fifteenth century to allude to the grounds possessed by the Guineus, a conventional term for the dark African people groups underneath the Senegal River, rather than the 'brownish' Zenaga Berbers, above it, whom they called Azenegues or Moors. Guinea is a transcendently Islamic nation, with Muslims speaking to 85 percent of the populace. Guinea's kin have a place with twenty-four ethnic gatherings. French, the official language of Guinea, is the fundamental language of correspondence in schools, in government organization, and the media, yet more than twenty-four indigenous dialects are additionally spoken. Guinea's economy is to a great extent reliant on farming and mineral creation.


Coat of Arms


Guinea Coat of Arms

Territory


Guinea Map

245,836 km2 (77th)


Capital


Guinea Capital

Conakry

Conakry is the capital and biggest city of Guinea. A port city, it fills in as the monetary, budgetary and social focal point of Guinea. Initially arranged on Tombo Island, one of the テ四es de Los, it has since spread up the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula. Conakry was initially settled on the little Tombo Island and later spread to the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula, a 36-kilometer (22 mi) significant lot of land 0.2 to 6 kilometers (660 to 19,690 ft) wide. The city was basically established after Britain surrendered the island to France in 1887. In 1885 the two island towns of Conakry and Boubinet had less than 500 occupants. Conakry turned into the capital of French Guinea in 1904 and thrived as a fare port, especially after a railroad (presently shut) to Kankan opened up the inside of the nation for the expansive scale fare of groundnut.


Languague


Guinea Languague

French



Motto


Guinea Motto

'Work, Justice, Solidarity'



National Flower of Guinea


Guinea National Flower

Vernonia djalonensis

Vernonia is a variety of around 1000 types of forbs and bushes in the family Asteraceae. A few animal types are known as ironweed. A few animal varieties are eatable and of financial esteem. They are known for having serious purple blossoms. The sort is named for the English botanist William Vernon. There are various particular subgenera and subsections in this variety. A few types of Vernonia are eaten as leaf vegetables. Regular names for these species incorporate bitterleaf, onugbu in the Igbo language, ewuro and ndole. They are normal in most West African and Central African nations. They are a standout amongst the most generally devoured leaf vegetables of Nigeria, where the onugbu soup is a neighborhood delicacy of the Igbo individuals, and of Cameroon, where they are a key element of Ndolテゥ. The leaves have a sweet and harsh taste. They are sold crisp or dried, and are a normal fixing in egusi soup. is a key fixing in ndolテゥ, a national dish of Cameroon.


Demonym(s)

Guinean

Population

12,395,924
(2016 estimate)

Currency

Guinean franc (GNF)

Time Zone

UTC+0 (GMT)

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