Upper Guinea is a geographical term used in several contexts:
Upper Guinea (French: Haute-Guinée) is one of the four geographic regions of the Republic of Guinea, being east of Futa Jalon, north of Forest Guinea, and bordering Mali. The population of this region is mainly Malinke.
In a larger sense, it refers to a large plain covering eastern Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and extending into north western Côte d'Ivoire. Mostly forming the upper watershed of the River Niger, it is sparsely populated and is home to the Haut Niger National Park.
Upper Guinea can also refer to the interior part of the wider Guinea region, bordering the Sahel. The interior regions are largely defined by the watersheds of rivers that arise from Fouta Djallon, including the Niger, Senegal, Faleme and others. The term was widely applied during the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries to describe a coastal region and its related hinterland with which Europeans traded.
In biogeography, Upper Guinea refers the region of tropical rainforest extending from southwestern Guinea through Sierra Leone, Liberia, southeastern Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, and southwestern Ghana. The Dahomey Gap, a drier region of Ghana, Togo, and Benin where the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic extends to the Gulf of Guinea, separates Upper Guinea from the tropical rainforests of Lower Guinea further east.[1][2] The Upper Guinea forests are also recognized as an endemic bird area.[3]
^"Guinean Forests of West Africa." Conservation International. Accessed November 12, 2012. [1]
^"Upper Guinea rivers and streams" WWF. Accessed November 12, 2012
^"Upper Guinea forests" Birdlife International. Accessed November 12, 2012. [2]
UpperGuinea is a geographical term used in several contexts: UpperGuinea (French: Haute-Guinée) is one of the four geographic regions of the Republic...
geographic regions: Maritime Guinea on the Atlantic coast, the Fouta Djallon or Middle Guinea highlands, the UpperGuinea savanna region in the northeast...
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The UpperGuinea Creoles are Portuguese-based creole languages, based in West Africa, that have Portuguese as their substantial lexifier. It includes the...
the UpperGuinea Portuguese Creole, as spoken on the Santiago island of Cape Verde and in Guinea-Bissau and Casamance. In Bart Jacob's study The Upper Guinea...
Portuguese Guinea (Portuguese: Guiné Portuguesa), called the Overseas Province of Guinea from 1951 until 1972 and then State of Guinea from 1972 until...
Gulf of Guinea), which became known as "UpperGuinea", and to the west coast of Southern Africa (to the east), which became known as "Lower Guinea".[citation...
colonies was formalised as French West Africa. French Guinea, Senegal, Dahomey, Cote d'Ivoire and Upper Senegal and Niger, were each ruled by a lieutenant...
and North-west African garden bulbul. Found from Morocco to Tunisia UpperGuinea bulbul P. b. inornatus (Fraser, 1843) — Originally described as a separate...
(Middle Guinea); the northern savanna (UpperGuinea); and a southeastern rain-forest region (Forest Guinea). Guinea lies in western Africa, bordering the...
(Piliocolobus badius), also known as the bay red colobus, rust red colobus or UpperGuinea red colobus, is a species of Old World monkey in West African forests...
divides the Guinean forests into the UpperGuinean forests and Lower Guinean forests. The UpperGuinean forests extend from Sierra Leone and Guinea in the...
slave trade on the UpperGuinea Coast, was published by the Oxford University Press in 1970 under the title A History of the UpperGuinea Coast 1545–1800...
Gulf of Guinea, from Ghana through Benin, Togo, Nigeria, and Cameroon. It is separated from UpperGuinea by the drier Dahomey Gap. Lower Guinean forests...
States. The enslaved Africans came mostly from the regions of Senegambia, UpperGuinea, Windward Coast, Gold Coast, Bight of Benin, Bight of Biafra, and Angola...
country Middle Guinea (La Moyenne-Guinée) covers 20% of the country UpperGuinea (La Haute-Guinée) covers 38% of the country Forested Guinea (Guinée Forestière)...
bounded by Maritime Guinea, also known as Lower Guinea, to the west, Guinea Bissau to the northwest, Senegal to the north, UpperGuinea to the east, and...
Jewish communities along the coasts of the UpperGuinea from Sierra Leone to Senegal, including in what is now Guinea. These Portuguese settlers, known as lançados...
The Tuckers of Sherbro are[citation needed] an Afro-European clan from the Southern region of Sierra Leone. The clan's progenitors were an English trader...
Portuguese co-exists in Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Principe with Portuguese-based creoles (UpperGuinea and Gulf of Guinea Creoles), but Portuguese...
preparations and ingredients varying by region: Mid Guinea, UpperGuinea, Coastal Guinea, Forested Guinea, and the area of the capital (Conakry). It is part...
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