The Guinea–Senegal border is 363 km (225 m) in length and runs from the tripoint with

Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778. It borders Senegal to Guinea-Bissau–Senegal border, its north and Guinea to Guinea–Guinea-Bissau b ...

in the west to the

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with

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in the east.

Description

The border starts in the west at the tripoint with Guinea-Bissau, proceeding eastwards via a series of irregular overland lines and some rivers (notably the Mitji, Termossé and Soudoul), before terminating at the Malian tripoint in the east on the Balinko river.

History

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had begun settling in the region of modern Senegal in the 17th century, later annexing the coast of what is now Guinea in the late 19th century as the Rivières du Sud colony. The latter area was constituted as French Guinea in 1893, with both it and Senegal later becoming part of the

French West Africa French West Africa (, ) was a federation of eight French colonial empires#Second French colonial empire, French colonial territories in West Africa: Colonial Mauritania, Mauritania, French Senegal, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guin ...

colony. A border between them was delimited in a French ''arrêté'' of 15 November 1898, being described in more detail by a further ''arrêté'' of 27 February 1915, before being finalised at its current limit by a decree of 13 December 1933. As the movement for decolonisation grew after the

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, France gradually granted more political rights and representation to their sub-Saharan African colonies, culminating in the granting of broad internal autonomy to French West Africa in 1958 within the framework of the

French Community The French Community () was the constitutional organization set up in October 1958 between France and its remaining African colonies, then in the process of decolonization. It replaced the French Union, which had reorganized the colonial em ...

. In 1958 Guinea gained independence, followed by Senegal in 1960.

Settlements near the border

Guinea

* Youkounkoun

Senegal

* Nepen Diakha * * Niagalankome

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guinea-Senegal border Borders of Guinea Borders of Senegal International borders