Last verified: Thursday, 17. October 2019 at 07:24 AM
Last verified: Thursday, 17. October 2019 at 07:24 AM
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Travelling Guinea is (relatively) safe Travelling Guinea is (relatively) safe. We detected travel advisories from 4 sources for this specific country.
Guinea shares a land border with 6 neighbouring states. For this region of countries (including Guinea), the Advisory Index is 2.8 (average value over all countries). All countries have some reported advisories: Mali (4.6), Guinea-Bissau (2.7), Ivory Coast (2.6), Sierra Leone (2.5), Liberia with 2.3 and Senegal with 2.3 (of 5).
Chart of the risk level over that last 200 days. This is the daily calculated travel risk for Guinea.
Chart of the number of sources over that last 200 days. This is the daily number of advisory sources (of any rating) that have been active on that day.
Note: Changes happening on the 28th/29th of July 2019 are related to a change in the software and number of sources processed.
These are the individual advisories published by other countries about the destination Guinea from a travellers perspective. The scoring of all messages combined is the foundation for the current rating 2.5 out of 5.0.
Danger level: 2 - Travel is usually safe. This is the general advisory usually covering the country as a whole.
Exercise increased caution in Guinea due to civil unrest. Frequent, unpredictable demonstrations occur across the country. Some have turned violent, resulting in injuries and several fatalities. Demonstrators have also attacked vehicles when drivers attempted to pass through or around the protests. Criminals take advantage of the resulting traffic congestion ...
Danger level: 4 - Reconsider travelling. This is the general advisory usually covering the country as a whole.
Avoid non-essential travel to the border regions with Sierra Leone, Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire due to cross-border military and rebel activity and the threat of banditry.
Danger level: 3 - Travel with high caution. This is the general advisory usually covering the country as a whole.
The Canadian goverment suggests: Exercise a high degree of caution.
Danger level: 3 - Travel with high caution. This is the general advisory usually covering the country as a whole.
High degree of caution
Source: https://www.dfa.ie/travel/travel-advice/a-z-list-of-countries/guinea/
This is the recent history of individual changes of travel advices that affected the total asessment of Guinea. Most recent events first.
The total rating for Guinea changed from 0.0 to 0.0. Here are the influencing details:
The United States government issued a new warning for Guinea with a rating of 2.0.
The Canadian government issued a new warning for Guinea with a rating of 3.0.
The New Zealand government issued a new warning for Guinea with a rating of 2.0.
The Irish government issued a new warning for Guinea with a rating of 3.0.
Guinea with its capital Conakry is a country in Africa (Western Africa), slightly smaller than Oregon (245,857 km²). The country is located Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone. The climate can be described as generally hot and humid; monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds; dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds. The landscape is generally flat coastal plain, hilly to mountainous interior. With a population of about 10.21 million citizens.
| Topic | Value |
|---|---|
| Capital | Conakry |
| Population | about 10.21 million |
| Size | 245.857 km² |
| Size comparable to | slightly smaller than Oregon |
| Common languages | French |
| Currency | Franc (short: GNF) |
| Common voltage (electricity) | 220V - 50Hz |
| Used GSM Frequencies | 900 |
| International phone prefix | +224 |
| Internet Top Level Domain | .gn |
| Countrycode: ISO Alpha 2 | GN |
| Countrycode: ISO Alpha 3 | GIN |
| Countrycode: ISO Numeric | 324 |
These are problems Guinea is facing. Environmental issues refer to damages of the nature due to industry and society. Natural hazzards refer to potential dangers originating in nature.
Environmental problems
Natural hazzards
These are the main product industries and agricultural products of Guinea. This list indicates what this country is good at producing.
Industries
Agriculture products
These are the main product categories of imports and exports to and from Guinea.
Export products
Import products
Guinea is currently rated at 2,5 out of a possible 5.0. Collected from 4 official sources. Travelling Guinea is (relatively) safe.
You are good to go, enjoy your trip to Guinea.
We currently evaluate 11 official sources each morning. Today, we know of active advisories from 4 individual sources for Guinea.
Guinea has a size of 245,857 km² or 94,926 mi² which is slightly smaller than Oregon.
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2019-09-01:
Added timeline charts for risk level and number of advisories.
2019-07-29:
Added two more sources (Finland and Denmark).
Affects country ratings.
2019-07-15:
South-Sudan was missing and was added today.
2019-05-18:
Performance improvements for API users.
2019-03-23:
Introduced professional API with more data.
2019-02-13:
Added three more sources (Cyprus, Ireland and Malta).
Affects country ratings.
Mali (4.6)
Guinea-Bissau (2.7)
Ivory Coast (2.6)
Sierra Leone (2.5)
Liberia (2.3)
Senegal (2.3)
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Greenland (North America)
Guadeloupe (North America)
Equatorial Guinea (Africa)