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Guinea-Bissaui
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Guinea-BissauCountry

Coat of Arms of Guinea-BissauFlag of Guinea-Bissau
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Geological map of Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau
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Guiné Bissau cartographic map

Guinea-Bissau
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Geological map of Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau
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Guiné Bissau cartographic map

Guinea-Bissau
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Geological map of Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau
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Guiné Bissau cartographic map

Guinea-Bissau
Area:
36,125 km2
Neighbouring regions:
Type:
Largest Settlements:
PlacePopulation
Bissau388,028 (2011)
Bafatá22,521 (2018)
Gabú14,430 (2018)
Bissorã12,688 (2018)
Bolama10,769 (2015)
Cacheu10,490 (2015)
Mindat Locality ID:
158362
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:158362:8
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Other Languages:
French:
Guinée-Bissau
German:
Guinea-Bissau
Italian:
Guinea-Bissau
Russian:
Гвинея-Бисау
Simplified Chinese:
幾內亞比索
Spanish:
Guinea-Bisáu
Achinese:
Guinea Bissau
Afrikaans:
Guinee-Bissau
Akan:
Gini Bisaw
Albanian:
Guinea Bisau
Alemannic:
Guinea-Bissau
Amharic:
ጊኔ-ቢሳው
Arabic:
غينيا بيساو
Aragonese:
Guinea-Bissau
Armenian:
Գվինեա Բիսաու
Aromanian:
Guinea-Bissau
Asturian:
Guinea-Bisáu
Azeri:
Qvineya-Bisau
Bambara:
Gine Bisau
Bashkir:
Гвинея-Бисау
Basque:
Ginea-Bissau
Belarusian:
Гвінея-Бісау
Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa):
Гвінэя-Бісаў
Bengali:
গিনি-বিসাউ
Bishnupriya Manipuri:
গিনি-বিসাও
Bosnian:
Gvineja-Bisau
Breton:
Ginea-Bissau
Bulgarian:
Гвинея-Бисау
Burmese:
ဂင်းနီဗစ်ဆောနိုင်ငံ
Catalan:
Guinea Bissau
Cebuano:
Guinea-Bissau
Central Bikol:
Guineya-Bisau
Central Kurdish/Sorani:
گینێ بیساو
Chavacano:
Guinea-Bissau
Chechen:
Гвине-Бисау
Cherokee:
ᎫᏇ-ᏈᏌᎤᏫ
Chuvash:
Гвиней-Бисау
Classical Chinese:
幾內亞比紹
Cornish:
Gyni-Bissaw
Corsican:
Guinea-Bissau
Crimean Tatar (Latin):
Gvineya Bissau
Croatian:
Gvineja Bisau
Czech:
Guinea-Bissau
Danish:
Guinea-Bissau
Doteli:
गिनीया बिसाउ
Dutch:
Guinee-Bissau
Dzongkha:
གྷི་ནི་ བྷི་སཱའུ
Egyptian Arabic:
جينيا بيساو
Esperanto:
Gvineo Bisaŭa
Estonian:
Guinea-Bissau
Ewe:
Gini Bisao
Extremaduran:
Guinea-Bissau
Faroese:
Guinea-Bissau
Farsi/Persian:
گینه بیسائو
Fiji Hindi:
Guinea-Bissau
Finnish:
Guinea-Bissau
Franco-Provençal:
Guinê-Bissaou
Friulian:
Guinea-Bissau
Fula:
Gine-Bisaawo
Gagauz:
Gvineya Bissau
Galician:
Guinea-Bisau
Georgian:
გვინეა-ბისაუ
Greek:
Γουινέα-Μπισσάου
Greenlandic:
Guinea-Bissau
Guarani:
Gynéa Mbisáu
Gujarati:
ગિની-બિસાઉ
Haitian:
Gine-Bisao
Hakka:
Guiné-Bissau
Hausa:
Gini Bisau
Hebrew:
גינאה ביסאו
Hill Mari:
Гвиней-Бисау
Hindi:
गिनी-बिसाऊ
Hungarian:
Bissau-Guinea
Icelandic:
Gínea-Bissá
Ido:
Guinea Bisau
Igbo:
Guinea-Bissau
Iloko:
Guinea-Bissau
Indonesian:
Guinea-Bissau
Interlingua:
Guinea-Bissau
Interlingue:
Guinea-Bissau
Irish Gaelic:
Guine-Bissau
Jamaican Patois:
Gini-Bisau
Japanese:
ギニアビサウ
Javanese:
Guinea-Bissau
Kabiye:
Kinee-Pɩsaʊ
Kabyle:
Ɣinya-Bisaw
Kalmyk:
Биса Гвинмудин Орн
Kannada:
ಗಿನಿ-ಬಿಸೌ
Kapampangan:
Guinea-Bissau
Kashmiri:
گیٖنی بِساو
Kazakh (Cyrillic Script):
Гвинея-Бисау
Khmer:
ហ្គីណេប៊ីសូ
Kikuyu:
Ginebisau
Kinyarwanda:
Gineya-Biso
Kongo:
Ginea-Bisau
Korean:
기니비사우
Kurdish (Latin Script):
Gîne-Bissau
Kyrgyz:
Гвинея-Бисау
Lao:
ກິວນີ-ບິສໂຊ
Latin:
Guinea Bissaviensis
Latvian:
Gvineja-Bisava
Ligurian:
Guinea Bissau
Limburgian:
Guinee-Bissau
Lingala:
Gine-Bisau
Lingua Franca Nova:
Gine-Bisau
Lithuanian:
Bisau Gvinėja
Livvi-Karelian:
Gvinea-Bisau
Lombard:
Guinea-Bissau
Low Saxon/Low German:
Guinea-Bissau
Lower Sorbian:
Guineja-Bissau
Luganda:
Gini-Bisawu
Luri:
گینه بیسائو
Luxembourgish:
Guinea-Bissau
Macedonian:
Гвинеја-Бисао
Maithili:
गिनी-बिसाउ
Malagasy:
Giné-Bisao
Malay:
Guinea-Bissau
Malayalam:
ഗിനി-ബിസൗ
Maltese:
Ginea Bissaw
Manx:
Yn Ghuinea-Bissau
Maori:
Kini Pihō
Marathi:
गिनी-बिसाउ
Min Dong Chinese:
Guiné-Bissau
Minangkabau:
Guinea-Bissau
Mingrelian:
გვინეა-ბისაუ
Minnan / Hokkien-Taiwanese:
Guiné-Bissau
Mirandese:
Guiné-Bissau
Mongolian:
Гвиней-Бисау
Nahuatl:
Guinea Bissau
Nauruan:
Gini-Bitau
Navajo:
Gíní Bisó
Nepali:
गिनी-बिसाउ
Norfolk:
Gini-Bisau
Northern Frisian:
Guinea-Bissau
Northern Sami:
Guinea-Bissau
Northern Sotho:
Guinea-Bissau
Norwegian:
Guinea-Bissau
Norwegian (Nynorsk):
Guinea-Bissau
Novial:
Gini-Bisau
Occitan:
Guinèa Bissau
Odia:
ଗିନୀ-ବିସାଉ
Oromo:
Giinii-Bisaa’uu
Ossetian:
Гвиней-Бисау
Pali:
गिनी-बिसो
Papiamento:
Guinea-Bissau
Piedmontese:
Guinea-Bissau
Polish:
Gwinea Bissau
Portuguese:
Guiné-Bissau
Punjabi:
ਗਿਨੀ-ਬਿਸਾਊ
Quechua:
Khiniya-Wisaw
Ripuarian:
Jinneha_Bißau
Romanian:
Guineea-Bissau
Romansh:
Guinea-Bissau
Rundi:
Gineya Bisawu
Russia Buriat:
Гвиней-Бисау
Samoan:
Kini-Bissau
Samogitian:
Bisau Gvinėjė
Sango:
Ginëe-Bisau
Sanskrit:
गिनी-बिसो
Sardinian:
Guinea-Bissau
Saterland Frisian:
Guinea-Bissau
Scots:
Guinea-Bissau
Scottish Gaelic:
Gini-Bissau
Serbian:
Гвинеја Бисао
Serbo-Croatian:
Gvineja Bisau
Sesotho:
Guinea-Bissau
Shona:
Guinea-Bissau
Sicilian:
Guinia Bissau
Silesian:
Gwinyjo Bissau
Sinhalese:
ගිනි බිසවු
Slovak:
Guinea-Bissau
Slovenian:
Gvineja Bissau
Somali:
Guinea-Bissau
South Azerbaijani:
قینه بیسائو
Sundanese:
Guinéa-Bissau
Swahili:
Guinea Bisau
Swati:
IGiniya-Bhasawu
Swedish:
Guinea-Bissau
Tagalog:
Ginea-Bissau
Tajik (Cyrillic Script):
Гвинея Бисау
Tamil:
கினி-பிசாவு
Tatar:
Гвинея-Бисау
Telugu:
గినీ-బిసౌ
Tetum:
Giné-Bisau
Thai:
กินีบิสเซา
Tibetan (Standard):
གི་ནེ་-བི་སའོ།
Tigrinya:
ቢሳዎ
Tongan:
Kini-Pisau
Traditional Chinese:
畿內亞比紹
Tsonga:
Guinea-Bissau
Turkish:
Gine-Bissau
Turkmen:
Gwineýa-Bisau
Udmurt:
Гвинея-Бисау
Ukrainian:
Гвінея-Бісау
Upper Sorbian:
Gineja-Bissau
Urdu:
گنی بساؤ
Uyghur:
گۋىنېيە بىسسائۇ
Uzbek (Latin Script):
Gvineya-Bisau
Venetian:
Guinea-Bissau
Veps:
Gvinei-Bisau
Vietnamese:
Guiné-Bissau
Volapük:
Gineyän-Bisauän
Võro:
Ginea-Bissau
Waray:
Guinea-Bissau
Welsh:
Guiné-Bissau
West Frisian:
Guinee-Bissau
Western Punjabi:
گنی بساو
Wolof:
Gine Bisaawóo
Wu Chinese:
几内亚比绍
Yakut:
Гуинея-Биссау
Yiddish:
גינע-ביסאו
Yoruba:
Guinea-Bissau
Zazaki:
Gineya-Bisau
Zhuang:
Guinea-Bissau
Zulu:
IGini Bisawu


Former Portuguese colony.

Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese: Guiné-Bissau), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese: República da Guiné-Bissau), is a country in West Africa that covers 36,125 square kilometres (13,948 sq mi). It borders Senegal to the north and Guinea to the south-east.

Upon its independence from Portugal, declared in 1973 and recognised in 1974, the name of its capital, Bissau, was added to the country's name to prevent confusion with Guinea (formerly French Guinea).

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Fossils

There are 3 fossil localities from the PaleoBioDB database within this region.

These data are provided on an experimental basis and are taken from external databases. Mindat.org has no control currently over the accuracy of these data.

Occurrences3
Youngest Fossil Listed37.2 Ma (Eocene)
Oldest Fossil Listed113 Ma (Early/Lower Cretaceous)
Fossils from RegionClick here to show the list.
Accepted NameHierarchy Age
Galeacornea causea
species
Galeacornea : Galeacornea causea100.5 - 89.8 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Elaterosporites acuminatus
species
Plantae : Tracheophyta : Gnetopsida : Gnetales : Elaterosporites : Elaterosporites acuminatus113 - 93.9 Ma
Cretaceous
Deltoidonautilus senegalensis
species
Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Nautilida : Hercoglossidae : Deltoidonautilus : Deltoidonautilus senegalensis48.6 - 37.2 Ma
Eocene
Fossil LocalitiesClick to show 3 fossil localities

Other Databases

Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea-Bissau
Wikidata ID:Q1007
GeoNames ID:2372248

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