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Why the world has so many Guineas
Wikipedia has a good explanation of the etymology:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(region)#Etymology
Summary: It comes from an old Portuguese word for a subset of dark skinned North African people.
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Summary: It comes from an old Portuguese word for a subset of dark skinned North African people.