Guinea (Guinée, in French) or Guinea-Conakry is a republic in West Africa, independent since 1958.

Guinea may also refer to:

Places

  • Guinea (region), a region in West Africa
  • Guinea-Bissau, a country in West Africa
  • Equatorial Guinea, a country in western Africa
  • Papua New Guinea, a country in Oceania
  • Gulf of Guinea, a gulf of the Atlantic Ocean off the West African coast
  • Guinea, Nova Scotia, Canada, a community
  • Guinea, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community in Caroline County
  • Guinea, a region of Gloucester County, Virginia, United States

People

  • Cristina Guinea (born 1992), Spanish field hockey midfielder
  • Emilio Guinea (1907–1985), Spanish botanist
  • "Guinea", an offensive term for someone of Italian descent
  • "Guineas", a former term (now considered pejorative) for the Chestnut Ridge people of West Virginia

Other uses

  • Guinea (coin), a former British coin and currency unit
  • Guinea (wasp), a wasp genus in the subfamily Pteromalinae

See also

  • Guinea baboon, Papio papio, a species of baboon
  • Guineafowl, four genera of chicken-like birds in the family Numididae
  • Guinea pig, a genus of rodents
  • Guinea snout-burrower, a species of frog
  • Guinea worm, parasitic worm native to parts of Africa
  • Guinea Creole (disambiguation)
  • Guinea company (disambiguation)
  • Areas in South America with similar spellings:
  • French Guiana, an overseas department of France
  • Guyana, a country
  • The Guianas, a region
  • Guinia (disambiguation)
  • Guyana (disambiguation)