Guinea (disambiguation)

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Guinea is a country in West Africa.

Guinea may also refer to:

Currency

• Guinea (coin), a former British coin and currency unit.
• Egyptian pound (Egyptian Arabic: جنيه مصري‎‎ Genēh Maṣri [ɡeˈneː(h) ˈmɑsˤɾi]. The Arabic word "genēh" is pronounced like and derived from the English word "guinea."

Countries

• Equatorial Guinea, a country in Central Africa, formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau, a country in West Africa, formerly the colony of Portuguese Guinea
• Guinea, a country in West Africa, sometimes referred to as Guinea-Conakry for disambiguation
• Papua New Guinea, a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and adjacent islands

Former European colonies

• British Guinea, or British New Guinea, another name for the Territory of Papua, a former colony in what is now Papua New Guinea
• Danish Guinea, another name for Danish Gold Coast, a former colony in what is now Ghana, West Africa
• Dutch Guinea, or Dutch New Guinea, another name for Netherlands New Guinea, a former colony in what is now Indonesian Papua
• French Guinea, a former colony in West Africa, what is now Guinea
• German Guinea, another name for the former colonies of Kamerun and Togoland in West Africa
• German Guinea, or German New Guinea, a former colony in what is now Papua New Guinea
• Portuguese Guinea, a former colony in West Africa, what is now Guinea-Bissau
• Spanish Guinea, a former colony in West Africa, what is now Equatorial Guinea
• Swedish Guinea, another name for Swedish Gold Coast, a former colony in what is now Ghana, West Africa

Geography

• Guinea (region), a region in West Africa
  • Guinea Highlands, a forested mountain plateau in the Guinea region
  • Lower Guinea
    • Lower Guinean forests, a coastal forest region in the Guinea region
  • Middle Guinea
  • Upper Guinea
    • Upper Guinean forests, a tropical moist forest region of West Africa
• Guinea, Nova Scotia a community in Nova Scotia, Canada
• Gulf of Guinea, a gulf of the Atlantic Ocean off West African coast, south of Nigeria and west of Cameroon
• Guinea, a region of Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
• Guinea, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Caroline County, Virginia
• New Guinea (Papua Island), a large island north of Australia in the southwestern Pacific
  • Western New Guinea (West Papua), the western half of New Guinea, occupied by Papua (province), a province of Indonesia formerly known as Irian Jaya.

Surname

• Emilio Guinea (1907–1985), Spanish botanist

Animals

• Guinea (wasp), a wasp genus in the subfamily Pteromalinae
• Guinea baboon, Papio papio, a species of baboon
• Guinea pig, a genus of rodents
• Guinea worm, parasitic worm native to parts of Africa
• Guineafowl, four genera of chicken-like birds in the family Numididae

Other uses

• "Guinea", an English language offensive term for someone of Italian descent
• "Guineas", an antiquated term (now considered pejorative) for a bi- or tri-racial clan in northern West Virginia, the Chestnut Ridge people
• "Impatiens hawkeri" (New Guinea impatiens) is a species of flowering plant in the family Balsaminaceae. It is native to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

See also

• Guinia (disambiguation)
• Akal n-Iguinawen, for the possible origin of the name Guinea
• Areas in South America with similar spellings:
  • French Guiana, an overseas department of France
  • Guyana, a country
  • The Guianas, a region