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Guinea Administrative Divisions / Guinée

Open dataset of Guinea's administrative hierarchy — 8 regions, 34 prefectures, and 340 sub-prefectures. French reference data with geographic coordinates at every level. Designed for developers, researchers, government agencies, and AI agents.

Licensed under CC-BY-4.0. Browse the hierarchy through GitHub's folder navigation, download aggregate files in JSON/CSV/NDJSON, or integrate directly via raw URLs.

Overview

Item Details
Region 8
Prefecture 34
Sub-prefecture 340
Coordinates ✅ Included (all levels)
Formats JSON, NDJSON, CSV
License CC-BY-4.0
Last Updated 2026-05-24

Browse by Region

# Region Prefectures Sub-prefectures Link
1 Boke 5 37 Browse
2 Conakry 1 5 Browse
3 Faranah 4 41 Browse
4 Kankan 5 57 Browse
5 Kindia 5 45 Browse
6 Labe 5 53 Browse
7 Mamou 3 36 Browse
8 Nzerekore 6 66 Browse

Data Files

File Format Description
all-region.json JSON All 8 region records
all-prefecture.json JSON All 34 prefecture records
all-sub_prefecture.json JSON All 340 sub-prefecture records
all-flat.json JSON Levels 1-2 flat array
all-flat.ndjson NDJSON Streaming format
all-flat.csv CSV Spreadsheet format
hierarchy.json JSON Nested tree
schema.json JSON Schema Data schema

Quick Start

Python

import json

with open("data/all-region.json", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    data = json.load(f)

for r in data:
    print(f"{r['name']['local']} ({r['name']['en']}) — {r['children_count']['prefecture']} prefectures")

JavaScript

import { readFileSync } from "fs";

const data = JSON.parse(readFileSync("data/all-region.json", "utf-8"));
console.log(`Total: ${data.length} regions`);

Schema

Field Type Description
id string Unique identifier
level integer 1=region, 2=prefecture, 3=sub-prefecture
level_name object Level label (local + English)
name.local string Name in local script
name.en string English name
name.slug string URL-safe slug
parent object/null Parent division reference
ancestors array Full ancestor chain
children_count object Count of children per level
zip_codes array Postal codes (where available)
geo.lat string Latitude (WGS84)
geo.lon string Longitude (WGS84)

Full schema: data/schema.json

Hierarchy Browse

divisions/{region-slug}/
divisions/{region-slug}/{prefecture-slug}/

Sub-prefectures are listed inline in each prefecture's README.

AI Integration

Citation

Guinea Administrative Divisions Dataset (CC-BY-4.0)
URL: https://github.com/open-admin-data/guinea-administrative-divisions

See CITATION.cff for machine-readable citation.

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