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    French Guinea (French: Guinée française) was a French colonial possession in West Africa. Its borders, while changed over time, were in 1958 those of...
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    Guinea (/ˈɡɪni/ GHIN-ee), officially the Republic of Guinea (French: République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic...
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  • Guineans in France consist of migrants from Guinea and their descendants living and working in France. During the 1960s, Black Africans began to immigrate...
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    added to the country's name to prevent confusion with Guinea (formerly French Guinea). Guinea-Bissau has a history of political instability since independence...
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    French Guiana (/ɡiˈɑːnə/ or /ɡiˈænə/; French: Guyane, [ɡɥijan] ; French Guianese Creole: Lagwiyann or Gwiyann, [la.ɡwi.jãn]) is an overseas department...
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    The French Armed Forces (French: Forces armées françaises) are the military forces of France. They consist of four military branches – the Army, the Navy...
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    Senegal (formerly French) The Gambia (formerly British) Guinea-Bissau (formerly Portuguese Guinea) Guinea (formerly French Guinea) Sierra Leone (British...
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  • Look up Guinea, guinea, Guinean, guinean, or Republic of Guinea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Guinea (Guinée, in French) or Guinea-Conakry is a republic...
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    territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey...
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    of area disputed between France and Brazil". Web2.bium.univ-paris5.fr. Retrieved 30 April 2015. "22 Mar 1943 - FRENCH GUINEA TURNS FROM GIRAUD TO DE GAULLE...
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  • like for all overseas departments and territories of France, is French. The dominant religion of French Guiana is Roman Catholicism; some of the Maroons and...
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    lists the presidents of Guinea, since the country gained independence from France in 1958 (after rejecting to join the French Community in a constitutional...
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  • period by the Berlin Conference (1884–1885) and the French, who ruled Guinea until 1958. What is now Guinea was on the fringes of the major West African empires...
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    Equatorial Guinea (Spanish: Guinea Ecuatorial; French: Guinée équatoriale; Portuguese: Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Spanish:...
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    Conakry (redirect from Conakry, Guinea)
    France in 1887. In 1885 the two island villages of Conakry and Boubinet had fewer than 500 inhabitants. Conakry became the capital of French Guinea in...
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  • The Guinea national football team (French: Équipe de football de Guinée) represents Guinea in men's international football and it is controlled by the...
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    of and topical guide to Guinea: Guinea – country located in West Africa, that was formerly known as French Guinea. Guinea's territory has a curved shape...
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    and the French Foreign Legion to patrol. There have been several phases launched by the French government to combat illegal gold mining in French Guiana...
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  • The economy of French Guiana is tied closely to that of mainland France through subsidies and imports. Besides the French space center at Kourou, fishing...
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    The French Community (French: Communauté française) was the constitutional organization set up in October 1958 between France and its remaining African...
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    The national flag of Guinea (French: drapeau de la Guinée) was adopted on 10 November 1958, with the publication of the country's first Constitution. The...
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  • Bissau-Guineans in France consist of migrants from Guinea-Bissau and their descendants living and working in France. The first Bissau-Guineans immigrants...
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  • First lady of Guinea (French: Première Dame de la République de Guinée) is the title attributed to the wife of the president of Guinea. The country's present...
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    French Guinea) to France, defined the frontier of Nigeria in France's favour, and agreed to French control of the upper Gambia valley; while France renounced...
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  • This is a list of colonial governors of French Guinea, from 1891 to 1958. (Dates in italics indicated de facto continuation of office) For continuation...
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    733), in Liberia. Old French map of the Gulf of Guinea Different limits of the Gulf of Guinea Satellite imagery of the Gulf of Guinea showing borders of...
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    Lauriane Doumbouya (category Guinean people of French descent)
    the 2021 Guinean coup d'état. She is an active duty member of the French National Gendarmerie. Darboux's family is from the south of France, and she worked...
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    The French Union (French: Union française) was a political entity created by the French Fourth Republic to replace the old French colonial empire system...
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  • Sudan (now Mali) (1883–1960) Senegambia and Niger (1902–1904) Guinea or French Guinea (1891–1958) Mauritania (1902–1960) Adrar emirate (protectorate)...
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  • French Guiana is an overseas region of France, located on the northern coast of South America between Suriname and Brazil. The country is part of Caribbean...
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