Guinea (disambiguation)

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
• 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

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