Bissau
Bissau is the capital city of Guinea-Bissau. In 2015, Bissau had a population of 492,004. Bissau is located on the Geba River estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean, and is Guinea-Bissau's largest city, major port, and its administrative and military centre.
Photo: Colleen Taugher, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: jbdodane, CC BY 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Presidential Palace, Bissau
Public building
The Presidential Palace is the residence of the President of Guinea-Bissau, situated in the capital city of Bissau. Photo: Joehawkins, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Estádio 24 de Setembro
Pitch
Estádio Nacional 24 de Setembro is a multi-purpose stadium in Bissau, Guinea Bissau. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bissau
- Type: City
- Description: capital city of Guinea-Bissau
- Categories: capital, administrative territorial entity and big city
- Location: Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, Africa
Latitude 11.8613° or 11° 51' 40.8" north | Longitude -15.5831° or 15° 34' 59" west |
Population 396,000 | IATA airport code OXB |
United Nations Location Code GW OXB | Elevation 13 metres (43 feet) |
OpenStreetMap ID node 254525765 | GeoNames ID 2374775 |
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Bissau
- Afrikaans: Bissau
- Akan: Bissau
- Albanian: Bisau
- Albanian: Bissau
- Amharic: ቢሳው
- Arabic: Bissau
- Arabic: بيساو
- Armenian: Բիսաու
- Asturian: Bisáu
- Azerbaijani: Bisau
- Bambara: Bisau
- Basque: Bissau
- Belarusian: Бісау
- Belarusian: Бісаў
- Bengali: বিসাউ
- Bishnupriya: বিস্সাউ
- Bosnian: Bissau
- Breton: Bissau
- Bulgarian: Бисау
- Catalan: Bissau
- Cebuano: Bissau (ulohang dakbayan sa Guinea-Bissau)
- Cebuano: Bissau
- Cebuano: Bissau Region
- Central Bikol: Bissau
- Central Kurdish: بیساو
- Chechen: Бисау
- Chinese: Bissau
- Chinese: 比索
- Chinese: 比紹
- Chinese: 比绍
- Cornish: Bissau
- Croatian: Bissau
- Czech: Bissau
- Danish: Bissau
- Dimli (individual language): Bissau
- Dutch: Bissau
- Esperanto: Bisaŭo
- Estonian: Bissau
- Fiji Hindi: Bissau
- Finnish: Bissau
- French: Bissao
- French: Bissau
- Fulah: Bisaawo
- Galician: Bisau - Bissau
- Galician: Bissau
- Georgian: ბისაუ
- German: Bissau
- Greek: Μπισσάου
- Guarani: Mbisáu
- Gujarati: બિસ્સૌ
- Haitian: Biso
- Hakka Chinese: Bissau
- Hausa: Bisau
- Hausa: Bissau
- Hebrew: ביסאו
- Hindi: बिसाउ
- Hindi: बिसाऊ
- Hungarian: Bissau
- Icelandic: Bissá
- Ido: Bissau
- Inari Sami: Bissau
- Indonesian: Bissau
- Interlingue: Bissau
- Irish: Bissau
- Italian: Bissau
- Japanese: ビサウ
- Javanese: Bissau
- Kabiyè: Pisawo
- Kabyle: Bissau
- Kannada: ಬಿಸೌ
- Kazakh: Бисау
- Kinyarwanda: Biso
- Kirghiz: Бисау
- Kongo: Bissau
- Korean: 비사우
- Latin: Bissau
- Latvian: Bisava
- Lingua Franca Nova: Bissau
- Lithuanian: Bisau
- Livvi: Bisau
- Lombard: Bissau
- Luxembourgish: Bissau
- Macedo-Romanian: Bissau
- Macedonian: Бисао
- Malagasy: Bissau
- Malay: Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
- Malay: Bissau
- Maori: Bissau
- Marathi: बिसाउ
- Min Dong Chinese: Bissau
- Min Nan Chinese: Bissau
- Mingrelian: ბისაუ
- Mirandese: Bissau
- Mongolian: Биссау
- Moroccan Arabic: بيساو
- N'Ko: ߓߌߛߊߥߏ߫
- Nepali: बिसाउ
- Newari: बिसाउ
- Northern Frisian: Bissau
- Norwegian: Bissau
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bissau
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Bissau
- Novial: Bisau
- Occitan (post 1500): Bissau
- Ossetian: Бисау
- Panjabi: ਬਿਸਾਊ
- Papiamento: Bissau
- Persian: بیسائو
- Piemontese: Bissau
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Bisau
- Polish: Bissau
- Portuguese: Bissau
- Pushto: بیساو
- Quechua: Wisaw
- Romanian: Bissau
- Russian: Бисау
- Scots: Bissau
- Scottish Gaelic: Bissau
- Serbian: Бисао
- Serbo-Croatian: Bissau
- Shona: Bissau
- Silesian: Bissau
- Sinhala: බිසවු
- Slovak: Bissau
- Slovenian: Bissau
- Somali: Bissau
- South Azerbaijani: بیسائو
- Spanish: Bisau
- Spanish: Bissau
- Spanish: Bisáu
- Swahili: Bisau
- Swedish: BIssau
- Swedish: Bissau
- Tagalog: Bissau
- Tajik: Бисау
- Tamil: பிசாவு
- Tamil: பிஸௌ
- Telugu: బిసావు
- Thai: บิสเซา
- Tibetan: བི་སའོ།
- Turkish: Bissau
- Turkmen: Bissau
- Udmurt: Бисау
- Ukrainian: Бісау
- Upper Sorbian: Bissau
- Urdu: بساؤ
- Uzbek: Bisau
- Venetian: Bissau
- Veps: Bisau
- Vietnamese: Bissau
- Waray (Philippines): Bissau
- Welsh: Bissau
- Western Frisian: Bissau
- Western Mari: Бисау
- Western Panjabi: بساؤ
- Wolof: Bisaawóo
- Wu Chinese: 比绍
- Yiddish: ביסאו
- Yoruba: Bissau
- Yue Chinese: 比紹
- São José de Bissáu
Other Places Named Bissau
- BissāuTown, Rajasthan, India
- BysewoNeighborhood, Pomorskie, Poland
- Bissau railway stationRailway station, Rajasthan, India
- Bissāu Railroad StationRailroad station, Rajasthan, India
- Heiden, BissauBus stop, Switzerland
In the Area
Localities
- Achada do Burro
- Santa Luzia
- MindaraNeighborhood
- Cupelão
- Gã Beafada
- Caliquir
Landmarks
- Coimbra Hotel & SpaHotel
- Hospital Nacional Simao MendesHospital
- Ponta de BandimCape
- Ilhéu dos PássarosIslet
- Campo de Aviação de BráAirfield
- Ilhéu do ReiIsland
Popular Destinations in Guinea-Bissau
Escape to a Random Place
MaastrichtNetherlands | MestiaGeorgia |
Tel AvivIsrael | Machu PicchuPeru |
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