Topic summary
Conakry Region
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Conakry.
Government and administration
The thirteen urban communes make up the Conakry Region, one of the eight Regions of Guinea, which is headed by a governor. At the second-tier prefecture level, the city is designated as the Conakry Special Zone, though the prefecture and regional government are one and the same. At 3.4 million inhabitants at the 2025 Census, it is far and away the largest city in Guinea, making up almost a fifth of the nation's population and making it more than eight times bigger than its nearest rival, Kankan (which had 410,542 inhabitants in 2025.