Camayenne Peninsula

peninsula, Guinea

Also known as: Kaloum Peninsula

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The Camayenne Peninsula is located in Guinea, a country in western Africa on the Atlantic coast. This peninsula, along with Tombo Island, forms the location of Guinea's capital city, Conakry. Conakry was founded by the French in 1884 and has served as the capital of various administrative regions, eventually becoming the capital of independent Guinea in 1958. The peninsula is part of the Lower Guinea region, one of Guinea's four geographic regions.12

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…a colonial town, while the Camayenne Peninsula community has only a few buildings of the colonial period. From the tip of the peninsula, an industrial zone has expanded northward.
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…a colonial town, while the Camayenne Peninsula community has only a few buildings of the colonial period. From the tip of the peninsula, an industrial zone has expanded northward.
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