Guinea

Lat/Long: 2.0000, 2.5000

The term Guinea was historically used to refer to the region of the western coast of Africa between 15° north and 15° south latitude, spanning roughly the coastal area between the modern countries of Gambia and Angola. Among the names that European traders used within this region was Slave Coast, which referred to the area along the coast of what is now Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, where the European trade of enslaved African people was active from about 1500 through the late nineteenth century.

Merriam-Webster’s Geographical Dictionary 3rd ed., (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1997), 457, 1095.