FRENCH GUINEA, ging, colony com prised in the government-general of French West Africa. It is situated on the coast be tween Portuguese Guinea and the British col ony of Sierra Leone, and extends inland so as to include the territories of Dinguiray, Siguiri, Kouroussa, Kankan, Kissidugo and Beyla. The area is about 95,000 square miles and the popu lation (1914) 1,810,059, including 1,166 Eu ropeans. It is a rich colony, exporting not only cattle, peanuts, gum, hides, beeswax and rubber, but also palm kernels and palm oil. There is an experimental garden near Konakry, the capital, where the culture of bananas, pine apples, rubber trees and other plants is being tried. Futa Jallon contains cattle in abundance. Gold is found in the river Tinkisso and in the Boure and Siecke districts. The French Guinea Railroad runs from Konakry to the Niger and thence to Kankan, a distance of 412 miles. At
Konakry there is a new breakwater 1,066 feet long. In the colony there are 2,225 miles of telegraph and 48 miles of telephone line, with 6 miles of submarine line. The chief port is Konakry, where ocean-going vessels discharge their cargoes at the wharves. In 1915, 408 ves sels, of 338,420 tons, entered the ports of the colony. Its imports in the same year were val ued at $1,870,033, and its exports at $3,134,414. A regular system of government schools has been introduced here as in the rest of French West Africa. Konakry has regular communi cations with Europe through two French, one English, and one German line. The 1916 budget of the colony amounted to $1,365,480. Consult Aspe-Fleurimont, (La Guinee Fran caise> (Paris 1900).