Guinea On World Map

Guinea ˈ ɡ ɪ n i listen officially the republic of guinea french.

Guinea on world map. New york city map. Map of guinea on world map and travel information. 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. Rio de janeiro map.

In 1446 portugal claimed the land and named it portuguese guinea. This map shows where new guinea is located on the world map. Go back to see more maps of papua new guinea. Trading posts were established most notably slave trade and the town of cacheu became well known as a major center for the practice.

It s sometimes called guinea conakry to distinguish it from its nearby neighbor guinea bissau. Guinea location highlighted on the world map guinea is a state in west africa lying on the coast of the atlantic ocean. A map of cultural and creative industries reports from around the world. This map shows where papua new guinea is located on the world map.

Guinea belonged to a series of empires until france colonized it in the 1890s and subsequently made it part of french west africa. Once a part of the mali empire the first europeans reached the region now known as guinea bissau during the mid 15th century. New york city map. Guinea on the map of the world and the african continent former spanish colony republicequatorial guinea is a young and developing country in africa.

New guinea on the world map click to see large. On a small scale political map of the world the country is a small rectangle on the shores of the gulf of guinea and a number of islands. File papua new guinea in the world svg wikimedia commons. Go back to see more maps of new guinea maps of indonesia.

Guinea has the tenth shortest coastline in africa. The country is bordered by guinea bissau senegal and mali on the north ivory coast on the east liberia and sierra leone on the south.