  Guinea
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| In Guinea you can trek through beautiful highland scenery and track wildlife in the jungles of the southeast. But the country still reels from a regime that turned its back on liberté , égalité and fraternité and embraced Maoist ideology in the 1950s |
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| Capital: Conakry |
| Official languages: French |
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| Government:Republic |
| President:Lansana Conté |
| Vice President:Ahmed Tidiane Souaré |
| Independence:2 October 1958Â, France |
| Population:9,402,000 |
| Currency:Guinean franc (GNF) |
| Description:In Guinea you can trek through beautiful highland scenery and track wildlife in the jungles of the southeast. But the country still reels from a regime that turned its back on liberté , égalité and fraternité and embraced Maoist ideology in the 1950s |
| Location:Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone |
| Area:245 857 sq_km |
| Natural Resource bauxite, iron ore, diamonds, gold, uranium, hydropower, fish, salt |
| Internet Code:.gn |
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