Guinea

Facts

What the numbers say about Guinea

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 69.5× the size of Guinea.
• At 72 people per km², Guinea is the 97th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Guinea lies at 10°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Guinea's main territory stretches about 610 km north to south and 813 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 246,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 244,000 km², to within 2%.

How Guinea measures up

Guinea holds 0.8% of the land area and 1.2% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Western Africa it is the 7th largest of 16.

Where Guinea sits

• Guinea's centre lies at 10.4°N, 10.9°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 1,160 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 7°N to 13°N, about 610 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Guinea had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Guinea would have 306.0 million people. It has 17.5 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Guinea would have 909,000 people. It has 17.5 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 17.7 million.

Compare Guinea

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