Cacheu region

Cacheu is a region in western , on the border with . It has an area of 5,175 km2 and a population estimated in 2004 at 164,676. Its capital is .
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  • Type: region of Guinea-Bissau with 180,000 residents
  • Description: administrative territorial entity of Guinea-Bissau
  • Also known as: “Cacheu Region”, “Chacheu”, “Region de Cacheu”, “rexión de Cacheu”, and “کاشیو ریجن”

Cacheu region

Latitude
12° north
Longitude
-16.1667° or 16° 10′ west
Population
180,000
Elevation
-2 metres (-7 feet)
Open location code
7C452R2M+28
Geo­Names ID
2374312
Wiki­data ID
Q780838
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Cacheu region” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إقليم كاشيو”
  • Belarusian: “Кашэу”
  • Belarusian: “Кашэў”
  • Bengali: “কাচেউ অঞ্চল”
  • Breton: “Cacheu”
  • Bulgarian: “Кашеу”
  • Catalan: “regió de Cacheu”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Cacheu”
  • Cebuano: “Cacheu Region”
  • Chinese: “卡謝烏區”
  • Chinese: “卡谢乌区”
  • Czech: “Cacheu”
  • Danish: “Cacheu Region”
  • Danish: “Region Cacheu”
  • Dutch: “Cacheu”
  • Esperanto: “Regiono Cacheu”
  • Finnish: “Cacheun alue”
  • French: “Cacheu”
  • Galician: “Cacheu”
  • German: “Region Cacheu”
  • Greek: “Κάτσεου”
  • Gujarati: “કૈચુ પ્રદેશ”
  • Hindi: “कैझू प्रदेश”
  • Indonesian: “Region Cacheu”
  • Indonesian: “Wilayah Cacheu”
  • Italian: “regione di Cacheu”
  • Italian: “Regione di Cacheu”
  • Japanese: “カシェウ州”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಚೆ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Korean: “카셰우주”
  • Latvian: “Kašeu reģions”
  • Lithuanian: “Kašeu regionas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cacheu”
  • Malay: “Cacheu Region”
  • Marathi: “कचेू प्रदेश”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cacheu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cacheu”
  • Norwegian: “Cacheu”
  • Polish: “Region Cacheu”
  • Portuguese: “Cacheu”
  • Portuguese: “Região de Cacheu”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Cacheu”
  • Russian: “Кашеу”
  • Sinhala: “කාචු කලාපය”
  • Slovenian: “regija Cacheu”
  • Spanish: “Región de Cacheu”
  • Swedish: “Cacheu”
  • Tamil: “காசு பகுதி”
  • Telugu: “క్యాషూ ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “แคว้นกาเชว”
  • Tswana: “Noka ya Cacheu”
  • Turkish: “Cacheu”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Кашеу”
  • Urdu: “کاشیو علاقہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Cacheu”

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Places to explore: Belabate and Caiomete.

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