Guinea / Place guide
Conakry is Guinea's Atlantic capital. Growth from an island and peninsula setting created a long urban form. Available ground between sea and land helps explain the direction of expansion.
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Harbour functions connect overseas trade with the hinterland. Water is therefore an economic structure as well as a view. Older central areas occupy one part of a city extending much farther inland.
Routes and distances respond to the elongated geography. Political, cultural and commercial activity spreads across different areas. Conakry presents a particular maritime side of Guinea, clearly different from the highland and forest regions elsewhere in the country.
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Guinea’s national museum in Conakry brings together traditional objects from different regions and colonial-period material, offering several perspectives on the country’s historical inheritance.
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This Conakry monument commemorates resistance to the 1970 attack, when Portuguese troops and Guinean fighters attempted to overthrow the government during Operation Green Sea.
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