{"id":318617,"date":"2024-12-05T17:50:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T12:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=318617"},"modified":"2024-12-06T12:09:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T06:39:13","slug":"key-facts-about-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"Key facts about Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Violence and stampede at a football stadium in southeastern Guinea resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries.<\/p>\n<h2>Key facts about Guinea (Republic of Guinea)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_318619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-318619\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-318619\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Guinea.png?resize=453%2C376&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Key facts about Guinea\" width=\"453\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Guinea.png?w=524&amp;ssl=1 524w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Guinea.png?resize=300%2C249&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-318619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- Britannica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>&#8211; It is a coastal country in western Africa.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital<\/strong>&#8211; Conakry (Largest city of Guinea)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Borders<\/strong>&#8211; It is bordered by Guinea-Bissau to the northwest, Senegal to the north, Mali to the northeast, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire to the southeast, and Liberia and Sierra Leone to the south. The Atlantic Ocean lies to the west.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rivers-<\/strong> Guinea is the source of three of West Africa&#8217;s major rivers: the <strong><em>Gambia<\/em><\/strong>, the <strong><em>Niger<\/em><\/strong>, and the <strong><em>S\u00e9n\u00e9gal<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Relief<\/strong>&#8211; Guinea consists of four geographic regions: Lower Guinea, the Fouta Djallon, Upper Guinea, and the Forest Region, or Guinea Highlands. The <strong><em>highest point in Guinea<\/em><\/strong> is <strong><em>Mount Nimba<\/em><\/strong> at 1,752 m (5,748 ft).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Minerals<\/strong>&#8211; It is the world&#8217;s <strong><em>second-largest producer of bauxite<\/em><\/strong> after Australia. Guinea has significant deposits of iron, gold, and diamond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Violence and stampede at a football stadium in southeastern Guinea resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries. Key facts about Guinea (Republic of Guinea) Location&#8211; It is a coastal country in western Africa. Capital&#8211; Conakry (Largest city of Guinea) Borders&#8211; It is bordered by Guinea-Bissau to the northwest, Senegal to the north, Mali to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-guinea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Key facts about Guinea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11211],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-318617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}