West Africa
Guinea-Bissau
Bafatá region

Bafatá

Bafatá is the second-largest city in , 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.
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  • Type: City with 34,800 residents
  • Description: town in Guinea-Bissau
  • Also known as: “Bafata”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Our Lady of Grace Cathedral, Bafatá.

Church
Photo: Jcornelius, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Our Lady of Grace Cathedral also called Cathedral of Batafá, is a religious building that is affiliated with the Catholic Church and is located in the town of Bafatá in the region of Batafá one of those that make the African country of .

Bafatá

Latitude
12.1723° or 12° 10′ 20″ north
Longitude
-14.6555° or 14° 39′ 20″ west
Population
34,800
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
Open location code
7C4758CV+WQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1440998494
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2375254
Wiki­data ID
Q799788
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Bafatá” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بافاتا”
  • Asturian: “Bafatá”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bafata”
  • Basque: “Bafatá”
  • Belarusian: “Бафата”
  • Breton: “Bafatá”
  • Catalan: “Bafatá”
  • Cebuano: “Bafatá (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Bafatá”
  • Chinese: “巴法塔”
  • Czech: “Bafatá”
  • Danish: “Bafata”
  • Danish: “Bafatá”
  • Dutch: “Bafatá”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بافاتا”
  • Finnish: “Bafatá”
  • French: “Bafata”
  • French: “Bafatá”
  • Galician: “Bafatá”
  • German: “Bafata”
  • German: “Bafatá”
  • Hebrew: “באפאטה”
  • Hungarian: “Bafata”
  • Hungarian: “Bafatá”
  • Indonesian: “Bafatá”
  • Italian: “Bafata”
  • Italian: “Bafatá”
  • Japanese: “バファタ”
  • Kazakh: “Бафата”
  • Korean: “바파타”
  • Lithuanian: “Bafata”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bafatá”
  • Moksha: “Бафата”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bafatá”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bafatá”
  • Norwegian: “Bafatá”
  • Persian: “بافتا”
  • Polish: “Bafata”
  • Polish: “Bafatá”
  • Portuguese: “Bafatá”
  • Romanian: “Bafata”
  • Romanian: “Bafatá”
  • Russian: “Бафата”
  • Scots: “Bafatá”
  • Slovenian: “Bafata”
  • Slovenian: “Bafatá”
  • Spanish: “Bafata”
  • Spanish: “Bafatá”
  • Swahili: “Bafatá”
  • Swedish: “Bafatá”
  • Turkish: “Bafatá”
  • Ukrainian: “Бафата”
  • Urdu: “بافاتا”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bafatá”. Photo: jbdodane, CC BY 2.0.