…a country on the west coast of Africa; population 10,058,000 (est. 2009); languages, French (official), Fulani, Susu, Malinke, and others; capital, Conakry…
…the sum of £1.05 (21 shillings in pre-decimal currency), now used mainly for determining professional fees and auction prices…
…a large inlet of the Atlantic Ocean bordering on the southern coast of West Africa…
…a large African game bird with slate-coloured, white-spotted plumage and a loud call. It is sometimes domesticated…
…a domesticated tailless South American cavy, originally raised for food. It no longer occurs in the wild and is now typically kept as a pet or for laboratory research…
…a very long parasitic nematode worm which lives under the skin of infected humans and other mammals in rural Africa and Asia…
…an island in the western South Pacific, off the north coast of Australia, the second-largest island in the world (following Greenland). It is divided into two parts; the western half comprises the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua, the eastern half forms part of Papua New Guinea…
…a country on the west coast of Africa, between Senegal and Guinea; population 1,534,000 (est. 2009); languages, Portuguese (official), West African languages, Creoles; capital, Bissau…
…a guinea of George III’s reign with a spade-shaped shield on the reverse…
…a small country of West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea, comprising several offshore islands and a coastal settlement between Cameroon and Gabon; population 633,400 (est. 2009); languages, Spanish (official), local Niger-Congo languages, pidgin; capital, Malabo (on the island of Bioko). Formerly a Spanish colony, the country became fully independent in 1968. It is the only independent Spanish-speaking state in the continent of Africa…
…a country in the western Pacific comprising the eastern half of the island of New Guinea together with some neighbouring islands; population 5,940,800 (est. 2009); languages, English (official), Tok Pisin, and several hundred native Austronesian and Papuan languages; capital, Port Moresby…
…a large African game bird with slate-coloured, white-spotted plumage and a loud call. It is sometimes domesticated…
