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词条 Guinea (disambiguation)
释义

  1. Currency

  2. Countries

  3. Former European colonies

  4. Places

  5. Surname

  6. Animals

  7. Other uses

  8. See also

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Guinea is a country in West Africa.

Guinea may also refer to:

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Currency

  • Guinea (coin), a former British coin and currency unit
  • Egyptian pound, ({{lang-arz|جنيه مصري}} {{transl|arz|Genēh Maṣri}} {{IPA-arz|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

Places

  • 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, a region in central part of the Republic of 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, a province of Indonesia formerly known as Irian Jaya

Surname

  • Cristina Guinea (born 1992), field hockey midfielder
  • 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 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

Other uses

  • "Guinea", an English language offensive term for someone of Italian descent
  • "Guineas", an antiquated term (now considered pejorative) for the Chestnut Ridge people
  • "Impatiens hawkeri" (New Guinea impatiens), a species of flowering plant in the family Balsaminaceae
  • Guinean forest-savanna mosaic, an ecoregion of West Africa
  • The 1000 Guineas or 2000 Guineas British horse races run at Newmarket

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
  • Guinea Creole (disambiguation)
  • Guinea company (disambiguation)
  • Guinn
  • Guyana (disambiguation)
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