Guinea (disambiguation)

Guinea or Guinea-Conakry is a republic in West Africa, independent since 1958.

Guinea may also refer to:

Places in West Africa

Guinea (region), a region in West Africa
Gulf of Guinea, a gulf of the Atlantic Ocean off West African coast, south of Nigeria and west of Cameroon
- Guinea Highlands, a forested mountain plateau in the Guinea region
- Guinean forest-savanna mosaic, an ecoregion of West Africa
- Upper Guinea historical name for the north coast of the gulf
  - Upper Guinean forests, a tropical moist forest region of West Africa
- Lower Guinea ] historical name for the east coast of the gulf
  - Lower Guinean forests, a coastal forest region in the Guinea region
- Middle Guinea, a region in central part of the Republic of Guinea

Nations

Guinea or Guinea-Conakry a country in Central Africa, formerly the colony of French Guinea
Equatorial Guinea, a country in Central Africa, formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea
Guinea-Bissau, a country in West Africa, formerly the colony of Portuguese Guinea

Former European colonies

Danish Guinea, another name for Danish Gold Coast, a former colony in what is now Ghana, West Africa
French Guinea, a former colony in West Africa, what is now Guinea
German Guinea, another name for the former colonies of Kamerun and Togoland in West Africa
Portuguese Guinea, a former colony in West Africa, what is now Guinea-Bissau
Spanish Guinea, a former colony in West Africa, what is now Equatorial Guinea
Swedish Guinea, another name for Swedish Gold Coast, a former colony in what is now Ghana, West Africa

New Guinea

New Guinea (Papua Island), a large island north of Australia in the southwestern Pacific
- Papua New Guinea, a nation occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and adjacent islands
  - British Guinea, or British New Guinea, another name for the Territory of Papua, a former colony in what is now Papua New Guinea
  - German New Guinea, a former colony in what is now Papua New Guinea
- West Papua, the western half of New Guinea under several governments:
  - Dutch Guinea, or Dutch New Guinea, another name for Netherlands New Guinea, a former colony in what is now Indonesian Papua
  - Republic of West Papua, proposed state
  - Irian Jaya, Indonesian province formed in 1969 following West New Guinea dispute
    - West Papua (province), Indonesian province formed in early 2000's
    - Papua (province), Indonesian province formed in early 2000's
Papua (disambiguation)

Other

Guinea, Nova Scotia a community in Nova Scotia, Canada
Guinea, a region of Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
Guinea, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Caroline County, Virginia
Nueva Guinea, a town in Nicaragua

Currency

Guinea (coin), a former British coin and currency unit
Egyptian pound (Egyptian Arabic Genēh Maṣri), genēh is pronounced like and derived from the English word guinea

Surname

Cristina Guinea (born 1992), field hockey midfielder
Emilio Guinea (1907–1985), Spanish botanist

Animals

Guinea (wasp), a wasp genus in the subfamily Pteromalinae
Guinea baboon, Papio papio, a species of baboon
Guinea pig, a genus of rodents
Guinea snout-burrower, a species of frog
Guinea worm, parasitic worm native to parts of Africa
Guineafowl, four genera of chicken-like birds in the family Numididae

Other uses

"Guinea", an English language offensive term for someone of Italian descent
"Guineas", a former term (now considered pejorative) for the Chestnut Ridge people of West Virginia
"Impatiens hawkeri" (New Guinea impatiens), a species of flowering plant in the family Balsaminaceae
The 1000 Guineas or 2000 Guineas British horse races run at Newmarket

gollark: As I said, technological advances allow more stuff from the same resource input.

gollark: You can measure historical GDP, ish, and it's way lower than we have now, despite them having access to the same planet to work with.

gollark: Except it isn't really.

gollark: I mean, outside of toy models or whatever.

gollark: Maybe you could make a good scifi thing a hundred years in the future or something about faster computers/better optimization algorithms/distributed system designs/something making central planning more tractable. Although in the future supply chains will probably be even more complex. But right now, it is NOT practical.