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Encyclopedic overview
"Negroland and Guinea with the European Settlements", Herman Moll, 1727 Guinea is a traditional name for the region of the coast of West Africa which lies along the Gulf of Guinea. It is a naturally moist tropical forest or savanna that stretches along the coast and borders the Sahel belt in the north.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Guinea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.