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Guinea-Bissau (nation)
Coordinates:
Lat: 12 00 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 12.0000 decimal degrees
Long: 015 00 00 W degrees minutes Long: -15.0000 decimal degrees
Note: Comprises archipelago and mainland marshy area; had agricultural settlements by 13th century; became tributary of Mali empire; Portuguese arrived in 1446; center in slave trade 17-18th centuries; rival claims of Portuguese, British, and French settled 19th-20th centuries; official language is Portuguese, though Criolo and numerous African languages are also spoken.
Names:
Guiné-Bissau (preferred C ,V ,Vietnamese )Guiné-Bissau Portuguese-P ,U ,N )Républica da Guiné-Bissau (C ,V ,O ,Portuguese ,U ,N )Guinea-Bissau (C ,O ,English-P ,U ,B ) ............ since 1974 Guinea-Bissau Indonesian )Guinea-Bissau Magyar (Hungarian) )Guinea-Bissau Danish )Guinea-Bissau Norwegian (Nynorsk) )Guinea-Bissau Finnish )Guinea-Bissau Swedish )Guinea-Bissau Romanian )Guinea-Bissau Slovak )Guinea-Bissau Spanish-P ,U ,B )Guinea-Bissau Aragonese )Guinea-Bissau Welsh )Guinea-Bissau German )Guinea-Bissau Low German )Guinea-Bissau Czech )Guinea-Bissau Galician )Guinea-Bissau Italian )Guinea-Bissau Estonian )Guinea-Bissau Greenlandic )Guinea-Bissau Norwegian (Bokmål) )Guinea-Bissau Romansh )Guinea-Bissau Malay (macrolanguage) )Guinea-Bissau North Ndebele )Guinea-Bissau Norwegian )Guinea-Bissau Pampanga )Guinea-Bissau Northern Sami )Guinea-Bissau Shona )Guinea-Bissau Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) )Republic of Guinea-Bissau (C ,O ,English ,U ,N )Guinée-Bissau (C ,O ,French-P ,U ,N )République de Guinée-Bissau (C ,O ,French ,U ,N )Гвинея-Бисау (C ,O ,Bulgarian )Гвинея-Бисау Russian-P ,U )Республика Гвинея-Бисау (C ,O ,Russian ,U )几内亚比绍 (C ,O ,Chinese-P ,U )几内亚比绍共和国 (C ,O ,Chinese ,U )غ اًَِ - ب سُاو (C ,O ,Arabic-P ,U )جُهور ةً غ اًَِ - ب سُاو (C ,O ,Arabic ,U )GNB (C ,O ,ISO3L )GW (C ,O ,ISO2L )ISO624 (C ,O ,ISO3N )PU (C ,O ,FIPS )Guinean (Guinea-Bissauan) (C ,O ,English ,U ,A )Guinea-Bissauan (C ,O ,English ,U ,A )An Ghuine-Bhissau (C ,U ,Irish Gaelic )Bisau Gvinėja (C ,U ,Lithuanian )Bissau-Guinea (C ,U ,Magyar (Hungarian) )Ghi-nê Bít-xao (C ,U ,Vietnamese )Ghi-nê Bít xao (Guinea-Bissau) (C ,U ,Vietnamese )Ginɛbisau (C ,U ,Lingala )Gínea-Bissá (C ,U ,Icelandic )Ginea-Bissau (C ,U ,Tagalog )Ginea-Bissau Basque )Ginea-Bissau Breton )Ginea Bissau (C ,U ,Basque )Ginea-Bissaw (C ,U ,Maltese )Gine-Bisaawo (C ,U ,Fulah )Giné-Bisao (C ,U ,Malagasy )Giné-Bisau (C ,U ,Tetum )Ginebisau (C ,U ,Kikuyu )Ginebisau Swahili (generic) )Gine Bisawo (C ,U ,Bambara )Gine-Biso (C ,U ,Turkish )Gine-Biso Fulah )Gine-Bissau (C ,U ,Turkish )Gine Bissau (C ,U ,Turkish )Gîne-Bissau (C ,U ,Kurdish )Gineya Bisawu (C ,U ,Rundi )Gineyän-Bisauän (C ,U ,Volapük )Gini-Bisaaw (C ,U ,Somali )Gini-Bisao nutome (C ,U ,Ewe )Gini Bisau (C ,U ,Hausa )Gini Bisaw (C ,U ,Akan )Gini-Bisawu (C ,U ,Ganda (Ugandan language) )Gini-Bitau (C ,U ,Nauruan )Gninëe-Bisau (C ,U ,Sangho )Guinea Bisau (C ,U ,Albanian )Guinea Bisau Swahili (generic) )Guinea Bisau Ido )Guinea-Bisáu (C ,U ,Asturian )Guinea-Bisau (C ,U ,Galician )Guinea Bissau (C ,U ,Indonesian )Guinea Bissau Catalan )Guinea Bissau Faroese )Guinea Bissau Malay (macrolanguage) )Guinèa Bissau (C ,U ,Occitan )Guinea-Bissáu (C ,U ,Spanish )Guinea Bissaviensis (C ,U ,Latin )Guine Bisau (C ,U ,Albanian )Guinê-Bissaou (C ,U ,Arpitan )Guiné Bissau (C ,U ,Portuguese )Guineea-Bissau (C ,U ,Romanian )Guinée Bissao (C ,U )Guinee-Bissau (C ,U ,Dutch )Guinee-Bissau Afrikaans )Guiné Portuguesa (C ,U )Gvineja-Bisao (C ,U ,Bosnian )Gvineja-Bisau (C ,U ,Bosnian )Gvineja Bisau (C ,U ,Croatian )Gvineja-Bisava (C ,U ,Latvian )Gvineja Bissau (C ,U ,Slovene )Gvineo Bisaŭa (C ,U ,Esperanto )Gvineo-Bisaŭo (C ,U ,Esperanto )Gwinea Bissau (C ,U ,Polish )Gyni-Bissaw (C ,U ,Cornish )i-Guinea-Bissau (C ,U ,Zulu )Kini-Pisau (C ,U ,Tonga (Tonga Islands) )Nginebisau (C ,U ,Luba-Katanga )Orílẹ́ède Gene-Busau (C ,U ,Yoruba )Província da Guiné (C ,U )Qvineya-Bisau (C ,U ,Azerbaijani )República da Guiné-Bissau (C ,U ,Portuguese )ګوينې بېساو (C ,U ,Pashto )ກິວນີ-ບິສໂຊ (C ,U ,Lao )ギニアビサウ (C ,U ,Japanese )गीनी-बिसाउ (C ,U ,Hindi )கினி-பிஸ்ஸாவ் (C ,U ,Tamil )غينيا بيساو (C ,U ,Arabic )ហ្គីណេប៊ីសូ (C ,U ,Khmer )ቢሳዎ (C ,U ,Tigrinya )ቢሳዎ Amharic )Гвинея-Биссау (C ,U ,Russian )გვინეა-ბისაუ (C ,U ,Georgian )Гвинеја Бисао (C ,U ,Serbian )ประเทศกินี-บิสเซา (C ,U ,Thai )گینهٔ بیسائو (C ,U ,Persian-Farsi )Гвінея-Біссау (C ,U ,Ukrainian )ጊኔ-ቢሳው (C ,U ,Amharic )Գվինեա-Բիսաու (C ,U ,Armenian )גיניאה-ביסאו (C ,U ,Hebrew )Гвинеја-Бисао (C ,U ,Serbian )Гвинеја-Бисао Macedonian )גינאה ביסאו (C ,U ,Hebrew )기네비쏘 (C ,U ,Korean )กินี-บิสเซา (C ,U ,Thai )幾內亞比索 (C ,U ,Chinese )گۋىنېيە بىسسائۇ (C ,U ,Uyghur )گینه بیسائو (C ,U ,Persian-Farsi )Гвинея Бисау (C ,U ,Tajik )Гвинея Бисау Bulgarian )Γουινέα-Μπισσάου (C ,U ,Greek )Γουινέα-Μπισάου (C ,U ,Greek )Ґвінея-Бісау (C ,U ,Ukrainian )기니비사우 (C ,U ,Korean )Гвинеа-Биса (C ,U ,Macedonian )گینێ بیساو (C ,U ,Kurdish )Гвінея-Бісау (C ,U ,Ukrainian )ഗിനി-ബിസോ (C ,U ,Malayalam )ギニアビサウ共和国 (C ,U ,Japanese )기네비소 (C ,U ,Korean )گوینیا-بیساو (C ,U ,Persian-Farsi )Гвинеа-Бисау (C ,U ,Serbian )ಗಿನಿ-ಬಿಸ್ಸಾವ್ (C ,U ,Kannada )గినియా-బిస్సావ్ (C ,U ,Telugu )गिनी-बिसाउ (C ,U ,Marathi )गिनी-बिसाउ Nepali )གྷི་ནི་ཡ་བིས྄་སོ། (C ,U ,Tibetan )गिनी-बिसाऊ (C ,U ,Hindi )กินีบิสเซา (C ,U ,Thai )גינאה־ביסאו (C ,U ,Hebrew )Гвінея-Бісаў (C ,U ,Belarusian )گنی بساؤ (C ,U ,Urdu )গিনি-বিসাউ (C ,U ,Bengali )ଗୁଇନିଆ-ବିସାଉ (C ,U ,Odia )ગિની-બિસાઉ (C ,U ,Gujarati )Guiné (H ,V )Portuguese Guinea (H ,O )
Hierarchical Position:
Place Types:
nation (preferred C ) ............ gained independence in 1974
primary political unit (C )
independent sovereign nation (C )
former territory/colony/dependent state (C ) ............ Portuguese, 15th-20th centuries
independent political entity (C )
Related geographic places:
capital is .... Bissau .................. (World, Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Bissau) [1092319]
historical connection .... Kaabu ........................................ (World, Africa) [8698191]
member of .... United Nations ................ (World) [7029605] ................ joined organization in 1974
Sources and Contributors:
Ghi-nê Bít xao (Guinea-Bissau).......... [VP ] ..................................................... GeoNames online [n.d.] 2372248
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