Bijagos Islands
The Bijagos Islands is an archipelago in Guinea-Bissau. The Bijagos Islands have been affected less by Western cultural influence than the mainland. Many of the smaller remote islands remain unspoilt paradises.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations 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".
Bijagos Islands
- Type: Island
- Description: archipelago in Guinea-Bissau
- Also known as: “Arquipelago dos Bijagos”, “Bijagós Islands”, “Bijagóz”, “Bijouga Islands”, “Bissagos”, and “Bissagos Islands”
- Historically known as: “Bijouga”
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Bolama and Bijagos, Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Bijagos Islands” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բիժագոշ”
- Azerbaijani: “Bijaqoş”
- Belarusian: “Біжагош”
- Bulgarian: “Бижагош”
- Catalan: “arxipèlag dels Bijagós”
- Catalan: “Arxipèlag dels Bijagós”
- Cebuano: “Arquipélago dos Bijagós”
- Chinese: “比熱戈斯群島”
- Czech: “Bijagós”
- Czech: “Bisagos”
- Czech: “Bissagos”
- Czech: “Bissagoské ostrovy”
- Czech: “ostrovy Bisagos”
- Danish: “Bijagósøerne”
- Danish: “Bissagosøerne”
- Dutch: “Bissagoseilanden”
- Estonian: “Bijagósi saared”
- Finnish: “Bissagos-saaret”
- Finnish: “Bissagossaaret”
- French: “archipel des Bijagos”
- French: “Archipel des Bijagos”
- French: “archipel des Bissagos”
- Galician: “Arquipélago dos Bijagós”
- German: “Bissagos-Archipel”
- Hebrew: “איי ביז’אגוש”
- Hungarian: “Bijagós-szigetek”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Bissagos”
- Italian: “Isole Bijagos”
- Japanese: “ビジャゴ諸島”
- Korean: “비자고스 제도”
- Latin: “Archipelagus Bissagosensis”
- Lithuanian: “Bižagošo salos”
- Maltese: “Arċipelagu ta‘ Bijagós”
- Maltese: “Arċipelagu ta’ Bijagós”
- Maltese: “Gżejjer Bijagós”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bijagósøyene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bijagós-øyane”
- Norwegian: “Bijagósøyene”
- Polish: “Bijagós”
- Portuguese: “Arquipélago dos Bijagós”
- Romanian: “Arhipelagul Bijagós”
- Russian: “Бижагош”
- Slovak: “Bijagóske ostrovy”
- Spanish: “Islas Bijagos”
- Spanish: “Islas Bijagós”
- Swedish: “Bijagosöarna”
- Turkish: “Bijagós Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Бижагош”
- Ukrainian: “Біжаґош”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Bissagos”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bijagos Islands”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.