Formosa
Formosa is an island in the Bissagos Islands, Guinea-Bissau, part of the sector of Caravela. Its area is 140 km2, its length is 19.9 km and it is 10 km across at its widest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Bissagos Islands, Guinea-Bissau
- Also known as: “Ilha Formosa”
Formosa
- Category: landform
- Location: Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Formosa” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ilha Formosa”
- Chinese: “福爾摩沙”
- Chinese: “福莫薩島”
- Croatian: “Formosa (Gvineja Bisau)”
- Croatian: “Formosa”
- Dutch: “Formosa”
- Estonian: “Formosa”
- French: “Formosa”
- German: “Formosa”
- Japanese: “フォルモーザ島”
- Lithuanian: “Formosa”
- Polish: “Formosa”
- Portuguese: “Formosa”
- Russian: “Илья-Формоза”
- Spanish: “Formosa”
- Swedish: “Ilha Formosa”
- Ukrainian: “Формоза”
- Yue Chinese: “福爾摩沙 (畿內亞比紹)”
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