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Kankan

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Kankan (Mandingo: Kánkàn) is the largest city in Guinea in land area, and the third largest in population, with a population of 193,830 people as of 2014. [1]

32 relations: Baté Empire, Boké, Caravan (travellers), Conakry, Djenné, France, Gberedou/Hamana, Guinea, Julius Nyerere University of Kankan, Kankan Airport, Kankan Prefecture, Kankan Region, Kola nut, List of countries and dependencies by area, Mandé peoples, Mandinka language, Mandinka people, Mango, Milo River, Minignan, N1 road (Guinea), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Nzérékoré, Prefecture, Region, René Caillié, Samori Ture, Siguiri, Sub-prefectures of Guinea, Timbuktu, Tinkisso River, University.

Baté Empire

The Baté Empire was a pre-colonial state centred on Kankan in what is today Guinea.

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Boké

Boké is the capital city of Boké Prefecture within the Boké Region of Lower Guinea near the border with Guinea-Bissau.

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Caravan (travellers)

Caravans A caravan (from کاروان) is a group of people traveling together, often on a trade expedition.

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Conakry

Conakry (Sosso: Kɔnakiri) is the capital and largest city of Guinea.

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Djenné

Djenné (also Djénné, Jenné and Jenne) is a town and an urban commune in the Inland Niger Delta region of central Mali.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Gberedou/Hamana

The Gberedou/ Hamana region is located roughly 50 km to the northeast of Kouroussa and 40 km southwest of Kankan.

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Guinea

Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a country on the western coast of Africa.

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Julius Nyerere University of Kankan

Julius Nyerere University of Kankan (UJNK), also known as Université de Kankan is a university in Kankan, Guinea.

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Kankan Airport

Kankan Airport (or Kankan Diankana Airport) is an airport serving Kankan, capital of the Kankan Region in Guinea.

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Kankan Prefecture

Kankan is a prefecture located in the Kankan Region of Guinea.

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Kankan Region

The Kankan Region is located in eastern Guinea.

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Kola nut

The kola nut is the fruit of the kola tree, a genus (Cola) of trees that are native to the tropical rainforests of Africa.

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List of countries and dependencies by area

This is a list of the world's countries and their dependent territories by area, ranked by total area.

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Mandé peoples

Mandé is a family of ethnic groups in Western Africa who speak any of the many related Mande languages of the region.

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Mandinka language

The Mandinka language (Mandi'nka kango), or Mandingo, is a Mandé language spoken by the Mandinka people of the Casamance region of Senegal, the Gambia, and northern Guinea-Bissau.

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Mandinka people

The Mandinka (also known as Mandenka, Mandinko, Mandingo, Manding or Malinke) are an African ethnic group with an estimated global population of 11 million (the other three largest ethnic groups in Africa being the unrelated Fula, Hausa and Songhai peoples).

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Mango

Mangoes are juicy stone fruit (drupe) from numerous species of tropical trees belonging to the flowering plant genus Mangifera, cultivated mostly for their edible fruit.

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Milo River

The Milo River is a river in Guinea in West Africa.

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Minignan

Minignan (also spelled Maninian) is a town in north-western Ivory Coast.

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N1 road (Guinea)

The N1 is a national highway of Guinea, It connects the city of Conakry to Nzerekore and to the north with Kankan and eventually by the N7 road and N32 road to the border with Mali.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; pronounced, like "Noah") is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.

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Nzérékoré

Nzérékoré, also spelled N'Zérékoré, is the second largest city in Guinea by population, after the capital Conakry and the largest city in the Guinée forestière region of south-eastern Guinea.

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Prefecture

A prefecture (from the Latin Praefectura) is an administrative jurisdiction or subdivision in any of various countries and within some international church structures, and in antiquity a Roman district governed by an appointed prefect.

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Region

In geography, regions are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography).

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René Caillié

Auguste René Caillié (19 November 1799 – 17 May 1838) was a French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu.

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Samori Ture

Samori Ture (c. 1830 – June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Guinean Muslim cleric, and the founder and leader of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was in present-day north and south-eastern Guinea and included part of north-eastern Sierra Leone, part of Mali, part of northern Côte d'Ivoire and part of southern Burkina Faso.

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Siguiri

Siguiri is a city in northeastern Guinea on the River Niger.

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Sub-prefectures of Guinea

The sub-prefectures (known in French as sous-prefectures) are the third-level administrative divisions in Guinea.

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Timbuktu

Timbuktu, also spelt Tinbuktu, Timbuctoo and Timbuktoo (Tombouctou; Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu), is an ancient city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River.

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Tinkisso River

The Tinkisso River is a river in Guinea in west Africa.

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University

A university (universitas, "a whole") is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in various academic disciplines.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kankan

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