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Lola, Guinea

town in the Forest Region of Guinea

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ1099959 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lola is a town in the Nzérékoré Region of Guinea, near the Liberian border. It is the capital of Lola Prefecture and has a population 60,711 (2008 est).

It is near Mount Nimba, the highest peak in Guinea. It is known for traditional medicine, cloth manufacture and the Timneh parrot.

Editorial summary

“Lola, Guinea” enters the record as town in the Forest Region of Guinea. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lola, Guinea and town can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lola, Guinea and town.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Lola, Guinea” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lola, Guinea and town provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1099959. Authority coordinates are 7.800, -8.533. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Lola, Guinea”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Lola, Guinea primary sources, Lola, Guinea archive and Lola research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Lola, Guinea”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Lola, Guinea” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.