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Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Capital: Conakry

Area: 245,717 km²

Population: 12,413,867

Former Name: French Guinea

Neighbouring Countries: ← Guinea-Bissau , ↖ Senegal , ↗ Mali , → Cote d’Ivoire , ↘ Liberia , ↓ Sierra Leone

Religions: Muslim 86.2%, Christian 9.7%, animist/other/none 4.1%

Languages: French (official)

Ethnic Groups: Fulani (Peul) 32.1%, Malinke 29.8%, Susu 19.8%, Guerze 6.2%, Kissi 4.7%, Toma 2.8%, other/no answer 4.6%

Motto: Travail, Justice, Solidarité (French) (Work, Justice, Solidarity)

Area: 245,857 km²

Catholic Population: 331,000 Catholics (2.4% of 13,627,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 71 parishes, 75 mission stations (2 with resident priest, 73 without resident priest), 2 other centres

Clergy: 6 bishops (4 diocesan, 2 titular), 221 priests (188 diocesan, 33 religious), 1 permanent deacon (religious)

Non-Clergy: 187 religious (34 brothers, 153 sisters), 143 major seminarians, 2 missionaries, 1,164 catechists