Canchungo
Canchungo is a town located in the western Cacheu Region of Guinea-Bissau formerly known as Vila Teixeira Pinto after Major João Teixeira Pinto, the Portuguese colonial officer who had brutally 'pacified' the area in the early 20th century.
- Type: Town with 6,850 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Pinto”
Canchungo
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Cacheu region, Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
12.06642° or 12° 3′ 59″ north
Longitude
-16.03191° or 16° 1′ 55″ west
Population
6,850
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
Open location code
7C453X89+H6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Canchungo” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Canchungo”
- Catalan: “Canchungo”
- Cebuano: “Canchungo”
- Chinese: “坎順古”
- Chinese: “坎顺古”
- Dutch: “Canchungo”
- Finnish: “Canchungo”
- French: “Canchungo”
- German: “Canchungo”
- Japanese: “カンシュンゴ”
- Japanese: “カンチュンゴ”
- Korean: “칸슝구”
- Lithuanian: “Kanšungas”
- Persian: “کناچنگو”
- Persian: “کنچونگو”
- Polish: “Canchungo”
- Portuguese: “Canchungo”
- Portuguese: “Teixeira Pinto”
- Romanian: “Canchungo”
- Silesian: “Canchungo”
- South Azerbaijani: “کناچنقو”
- Spanish: “Canchungo”
- Swahili: “Canchungo”
- Swedish: “Canchungo”
- Urdu: “کانشونگو”
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