Guinea

(gin'ne,) or THE GUINEA COAST, an extensive country occupying part of the W. central seaboard of Africa,and divided by geographers into S. Guinea, comprising the countries or territories of Angola, Benguela, and Congo; and N. Guinea, or Guinea Proper, including the so-called Gold, Grain, Ivory, and Slave Coasts,-Liberia, Ashantee, Dahomey, Sierra Leone, Benin, Biafra, .-The GULF OF G., a great arm of the Atlantic, is comprehended bet. S. Lat. 1°-6°20', and E. Lon. 7°30′10°. [s. 429]