Mambia

Mambia
Sub-prefecture and town
Mambia Location in Guinea
Coordinates: 9°49′41″N 13°7′4″W / 9.82806°N 13.11778°WCoordinates: 9°49′41″N 13°7′4″W / 9.82806°N 13.11778°W
Country	Guinea
Region	Kindia Region
Prefecture	Kindia Prefecture
Time zone	GMT (UTC+0)

Mambia is a town and sub-prefecture in the Kindia Prefecture in the Kindia Region of western Guinea.^[1]

Around 130km west of the capital Conakry, the town Mambia is the chief-place of the sub-prefecture,^[2] and home to a major bauxite mining operation, the Compagnie Bauxite de Kindia (CBK).^[3]

References

1. "Subprefectures of Guinea". Statoids. Retrieved April 19, 2009.
2. Kindia:la police réprime une manifestation, 2 morts, 12 blessés, AFP, 09-Oct-2008
3. GUINEA: Winners and losers in Guinea’s bauxite industry, IRIN, 9 June 2008.