Where is Guinea?

Where is Guinea located on the world map?

It is shown on the location map of Guinea that Guinea is located in the western part of the Africa continent.
It has had many names, for instance formerly it was popularly known as French Guinea and even at present it is also known Guinea-Conakry in order to distinguish from the neighbor country Guinea-Bissau. Conakry is the capital and largest city of the country.

It has almost a crescent shape due to curving coastline with Atlantic Ocean from the western side. However, it shares its international boundaries with Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, from the north, in the north-east Mali shares its international boundary with Guinea whereas Côte d'Ivoire from east, Liberia from south and Sierra Leone form south and south-west share their international boundaries.
Guinea-Bissau map depicts clearly that it shares its international boundaries with Senegal in the north, and Guinea in east and south-east. Besides, the Atlantic Ocean limits its further extension towards west.

Surprisingly, Guinea is very rich in terms of natural resources. The significant natural resources reserves in the country are bauxite, diamonds, gold, and many other metals; though, currently Bauxite and alumina are only major exports. Not only this, Guinea has huge potential for hydroelectric power.
However, agriculture keeps important place in the country by employing about 80% of the nation's labor force. Likewise, important agriculture activities are processing plants for beer, juices, soft drinks and tobacco. Earlier Guinea was a leading exporter of bananas, coffee, pineapples, peanuts, and palm oil.

Country	Guinea
Continent	Africa
Where is Located	Guinea is a country located in the West Africa
Coordinates	10.2716° N, 11.7188° W
Capital	Conakry
Largest City	Conakry
Neighboring Countries	Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone
Administrative divisions	33 prefectures and 1 special zone
Area	245,857 sq km (94,926 sq miles)
Population	10,884,958 (July 2012 est.)
Official Language	French (official)
Currency	Guinean franc (GNF)
ISO Alpha-2 Code	GN
ISO Alpha-3 Code	GIN
ISO Numeric Code	324
GDP	$11.464 billion 2011 estimate
Calling code	224
Time Zone	(UTC+0)
Internet TLD	.gn