Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea (
French
:
République de Guinée
), is a country in
West Africa
, formerly known as
French Guinea
. Guinea's territory has a curved shape, with its base at the
Atlantic Ocean
, inland to the east, and turning south. The base borders
Guinea-Bissau
and
Senegal
to the north, and
Mali
to the north and north-east; the inland part borders
Côte d'Ivoire
to the south-east,
Liberia
to the south, and
Sierra Leone
to the west of the southern tip. Its water sources include the
Niger
,
Senegal
, and
Gambia
rivers. Guinea is sometimes called Guinea-Conakry (Conakry being its capital) to differentiate it from the neighboring
Guinea-Bissau
(whose capital is
Bissau
). |