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Conakry ( Sosso: Kɔnakiri) is the capital and largest city of Guinea. Conakry is a port city on the Atlantic Ocean and serves as the economic, financial and cultural centre of Guinea. Its population as of the 2014 Guinea census was 1,660,973 Originally situated on Tombo Island, one of the Îles de Los, it has since spread up the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula.
The current population of Conakry is difficult to ascertain, although the U.S. Bureau of African Affairs has estimated it at 2 million. Conakry is thought to contain almost a quarter of the population of Guinea.
Usage examples of "conakry".
One story was of an American embassy communications technician who, upon leaving a restaurant in the early evening in downtown Conakry, the Guinean capital, was bludgeoned over the head by robbers.
But I decided instead to buy a one-way ticket from Abidjan to Conakry, the capital of Guinea, on Air Ivoire (fairly reliable) and to hope for the best from there.
As African birthrates continue at high levels and slums like Chicago, Washington, and Conakry proliferate, diseases spread rapidly and experts worry that viral mutations and hybridizations might conceivably result in a form of the AIDS virus easier to contact than the present strain.
Again unlike Conakry, or any of the other places along the West African coast, in Freetown there were mountains.
Here at last was a dramatic cityscape, built on hills fronting the sea, the very verticality and concentration of its settlement pattern suggesting a richer past and tradition than the flat godowns by the Atlantic at Abidjan and Conakry, which reeked of temporariness, however much larger than Freetown they may have been.
Ved Conakry, I charge you" And so on, the entire miserable tale of Rimerley's rich clients and their miserable victims, until there were more than thirty men and women shivering with terror before him.
Conakry was a city and a national capital only in the technical sense.