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Guinea-Bissau

Bissau

Bissau is the capital city of . In 2015, Bissau had a population of 492,004. Bissau is located on the 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

Stadium
is a multi-use stadium in Bissau, Guinea 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.

Pitch
Estádio Nacional 24 de Setembro is a multi-purpose stadium in Bissau, Guinea Bissau. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Public building
Photo: Colleen Taugher, CC BY 2.0.

Bissau

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

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