Bolama Island
Bolama is the closest of the Bissagos Islands to the mainland of Guinea-Bissau. The island has a population of 6,024. It shares its name with its largest settlement, the town Bolama, which is the capital of the island and the Bolama Region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Bissagos archipelago, Guinea-Bissau
- Also known as: “Bulama Island” and “Ilha de Bolama”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bolama.
Bolama
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Bolama is a city on Bolama Island in the Bijagos Islands of Guinea-Bissau. Due to its impressive array of decaying and crumbling colonial buildings, it has been described as the "colonial Angkor Wat".
Bolama Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Bolama Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Urdu—“Bolama Island” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Балама”
- Catalan: “Bolama”
- Cebuano: “Ilha de Bolama”
- Chinese: “博拉馬島”
- Dutch: “Bolama”
- French: “île de Bolama”
- French: “Île de Bolama”
- German: “Bolama”
- German: “Ilha de Bolama”
- Hausa: “Tsibirin Bolama”
- Polish: “Bolama”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Bolama”
- Romanian: “Insula Bolama”
- Russian: “Болама”
- Spanish: “Bolama”
- Swedish: “Bolama”
- Swedish: “Ilha de Bolama”
- Urdu: “بولاما”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ponta Doce and Ponta Nova.
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