Map of Guinea

Guinea is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 11.0° N, 10.0° W. It shares land borders with 6 countries — Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Guinea is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Guinea shares land frontiers with the following 6 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Guinea covers about 245,857 km² (94,926 sq mi). That makes it the 77th-largest country in the world by area and the 31st-largest in Africa, larger by area than 23 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 14,363,931, the 76th-largest in the world and the 28th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 1.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Guinea has an average population density of about 58 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 28th by population and 31st by area.

The seat of government is Conakry, and the official currency is the Guinean franc (GNF, Fr), and the main official language is French. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC.

Guinea carries the ISO country codes GN and GIN, dials on the international calling code +224 and uses the .gn internet domain.

Guinea shares its land borders with 6 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Cote d'Ivoire (capital Yamoussoukro, about 31,719,275 people), Mali (capital Bamako, about 22,395,489 people), Senegal (capital Dakar, about 18,593,258 people), Sierra Leone (capital Freetown, about 9,077,691 people), Liberia (capital Monrovia, about 5,248,621 people) and Guinea-Bissau (capital Bissau, about 1,781,308 people).

By area, Guinea is larger than 4 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 11.0° N, 10.0° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Guinea within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Conakry. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Guinea lies about 1,221 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Guinea keeps a single standard time zone, UTC. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +00:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Guinean franc (GNF, Fr).

The official language is French, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +224 and websites commonly use the .gn internet domain.

In short, Guinea is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 6 countries. Its capital is Conakry. Guinea has a population of about 14,363,931 and covers around 245,857 km² (94,926 sq mi), ranking it 76th in the world by population and 77th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Guinea.

The flag of Guinea is composed of three equal vertical bands of red, yellow and green.

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