Bafatá region
Bafatá is a region in north-central Guinea-Bissau and its capital is Bafatá. It is an inland region covered with savannah or light savannah woodland and receives an annual rainfall of more than 2,000 mm.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: region of Guinea-Bissau with 195,000 residents
- Description: region of Guinea-Bissau
- Also known as: “Bafatá” and “Bafata Region”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bafatá and Geba.
Bafatá
Bafatá is the second-largest city in Guinea-Bissau, known as the birthplace of Amílcar Cabral. The town has a population of 22,501. It is the capital of Bafatá Region as well as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafatá, which was established in March 2001 with Carlos Pedro Zilli as bishop.
Geba
Village
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Geba is a village, which is situated 5 km west of Bafatá region.
Bafatá region
- Location: Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Bafatá region” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إقليم بافاتا”
- Arabic: “محافظة بافاتا”
- Belarusian: “Бафата (рэгіён)”
- Belarusian: “Бафата”
- Bengali: “বোফাতা অঞ্চল”
- Breton: “Bafatá (rannvro)”
- Breton: “Bafatá”
- Bulgarian: “Бафата”
- Bulgarian: “Регион Бафата”
- Catalan: “Bafatá”
- Catalan: “regió de Bafatá”
- Catalan: “Regió de Bafatá”
- Cebuano: “Bafatá”
- Chinese: “巴法塔区”
- Chinese: “巴法塔區”
- Czech: “Bafatá”
- Danish: “Bafatá Region”
- Danish: “Region Bafatá”
- Dutch: “Bafatá”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Bafatá”
- Finnish: “Bafatán alue”
- French: “Bafata (région)”
- French: “Bafata”
- French: “Bafatá”
- Galician: “Bafatá”
- German: “GW-BA”
- German: “Region Bafatá”
- Greek: “Μπαφατά”
- Gujarati: “બફતા પ્રદેશ”
- Hindi: “बफाटा क्षेत्र”
- Indonesian: “Region Bafatá”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Bafatá”
- Italian: “regione di Bafatá”
- Italian: “Regione di Bafatá”
- Japanese: “バファタ州”
- Kannada: “ಬಫಾಟಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “바파타주”
- Latvian: “Bafatas reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Bafatos regionas”
- Luxembourgish: “Bafatá (Regioun)”
- Luxembourgish: “Bafatá”
- Malay: “Bafata Region”
- Marathi: “बाफता प्रदेश”
- Northern Frisian: “Bafatá”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bafatá”
- Norwegian: “Bafatá”
- Persian: “ناحیه بافتا”
- Polish: “Region Bafatá”
- Portuguese: “Bafatá”
- Portuguese: “Região de Bafatá”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Bafata”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Bafatá”
- Russian: “Бафата”
- Sinhala: “බෆාටා කලාපය”
- Slovenian: “Bafatá”
- Slovenian: “GW-BA”
- Spanish: “Region de Bafata”
- Spanish: “Region de Bafatá”
- Spanish: “Región de Bafata”
- Spanish: “Región de Bafatá”
- Swedish: “Bafatá (region)”
- Swedish: “Bafatá”
- Tamil: “பாபாட பகுதி”
- Telugu: “బఫాటా ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “เขตบาฟาตา”
- Turkish: “Bafata Bölgesi”
- Ukrainian: “Бафата”
- Urdu: “بافاتا ریجن”
- Urdu: “بافاتا علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Bafatá”
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