Guinea is located in the Western Africa at the coast of the Atlantic Ocean washing the 300-kilometer strongly cut up coastline. The area — 245,8 thousand sq.km. Till 1958 Guinea was a colony of France, nowadays — the presidential republic with the population about 9,5 million people. Official language — French. The most part of Guinea lies in a subequatorial belt. Average monthly air temperatures — from 18 ° to 27 °C, the hottest month — the April coldest — August. Precipitation drops out mainly in the summer, but on the territory is distributed very unevenly: on the coast in 170 rainy days in a year drops out to 4300 mm of a precipitation, and in the internal areas separated from the ocean by a massif — no more than 1500 mm.

The territory of the country is located within the ancient African platform broken by numerous breaks, dumpings with exits of volcanic breeds. Deep river valleys and hilly low-massif do Guinea similar to the highland. The largest heights — Uplands Fouta Djallon (the highest mountain — Tamge, 1537 m), limiting the narrow coastal lowland, and the North Guinean height in the southeast of the country (with the highest mountain of the Nimbus, 1752 m above sea level). The plateau Fouta Djallon is called by geographers "a water tower of the Western Africa" since the largest rivers of the region — Gambia and Senegal here begin. On the North Guinean height the river Niger (here called Dzholiba) originates also. The numerous rivers of Guinea are, as a rule, non-navigable because of numerous thresholds and falls, and also because of sharp fluctuations of a water level.

Guinea. In riverheads Niger.

To the traveler bright red or red-brown color of soils of savannas and the woods of Guinea rich with oxides of iron is evident. Despite the poverty of these soils complicating agriculture, the natural vegetation is very rich. Along the rivers gallery damp rainforests though in the majority of other places they as a result of activity of the person are replaced with dry rainforests and woody savannas still remained. In the north of the country it is possible to see the real vysokotravny savannas, and on the oceanic coast — mangry. Along an ocean coast the coconut palm tree, a Guinean olive palm tree, other exotic plants doing by similar to a botanical garden even streets of the large cities are usual. The fauna of the country is still rich: elephants, hippopotamuses, various species of antelopes remained, panthers, cheetahs, are numerous monkeys (especially the baboons, living big herds). It is worth mentioning also forest cats, hyenas, a mongoose, crocodiles, large and small snakes and lizards, one hundred bird species. Insects among whom there is a lot of and dangerous, transferring causative agents of yellow fever and a sleepy illness (a fly a tseets) are numerous also.

Practically all population of Guinea belongs to negroid race. The most numerous people is fulbe, Fouta Djallon occupying in the main plateau. Other people belong to a language subgroup mende: to malinka, korako, to Sousse. Official language, French, only small part of the population owns, and languages ful, to a malinka, Sousse are most widespread. 60% of the population — the Muslims, about 2% — Christians, the others adhere to traditional beliefs. The majority of the population is occupied in agriculture (cattle breeding, and also cultivation of rice, a cassava, sweet potato, corn). The capital and the largest city of Guinea — Conakry (1,8 million inhabitants). Other large cities — industrial centers and the transport Cancan, kandia, Laba hubs.