Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Conakry
- Region
- Africa, Western Africa
- Population
- 15,099,727 (2025)
- Area
- 245,857 km²
- Currency
- Guinean franc (GNF)
- Languages
- French
- Calling code
- +224
- Internet domain
- .gn
- ISO codes
- GN, GIN, 324
- Time zone
- UTC
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Guinea covers about 245,857 square kilometres. By area it ranks 80th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Ecuador and a little larger than United Kingdom. It shares a land border with 6 neighbours: Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Senegal. Its centre lies at about 11° north, 10° west, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 15.1 million people live in Guinea (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 75th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.18 percent of the world's people. On average there are 61 people to each square kilometre. About 39 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 61 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: French. A person from Guinea is called Guinean.
Money and economy
The currency is the Guinean franc (code GNF, symbol Fr). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 28.3 billion (2025), which is about US$ 1,877 for each person (2025).
Time
Guinea uses one time zone, UTC (Africa/Conakry). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Conakry | 1,928,389 |
| Camayenne | 1,871,242 |
| Nzérékoré | 226,426 |
| Kankan | 221,428 |
| Manéah | 194,297 |
| Dixinn | 186,553 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Western Africa
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.