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Bissau

Bissau is the capital and largest city of . As of 2015, it 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, its administrative and military center.
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  • Type: City with 396,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Guinea-Bissau
  • Also known as: “São José de Bissáu”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Bissau Cathedral and Presidential Palace, Bissau.

Church
, also known as Sé Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Candelária is a Catholic cathedral in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. It is the centre of the Catholic Church in Guinea-Bissau.

Public building
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The Presidential Palace is the residence of the President of Guinea-Bissau, situated in the capital city of Bissau. At its height it was one of the most substantial buildings in the city, but it was ruined during the 1998–99 Guinea-Bissau Civil War and subject to bombing.

Stadium
is a multi-use in Bissau, Guinea Bissau. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the stadium of Estrela Negra de Bissau of the Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau. The stadium holds 12,000 spectators.

Bissau

Latitude
11.8613° or 11° 51′ 41″ north
Longitude
-15.5831° or 15° 34′ 59″ west
Population
396,000
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
IATA airport code
OXB
United Nations Location Code
GW OXB
Open location code
7C36VC68+GQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 254525765
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2374775
Wiki­data ID
Q3739
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bissau” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bissau”
  • Albanian: “Bisau”
  • Albanian: “Bissau”
  • Amharic: “ቢሳው”
  • Arabic: “بيساو”
  • Aragonese: “Bissau”
  • Armenian: “Բիսաու”
  • Asturian: “Bisáu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bisau”
  • Balinese: “Bissau”
  • Bambara: “Bisau”
  • Bashkir: “Бисау”
  • Basque: “Bissau”
  • Belarusian: “Бісау”
  • Belarusian: “Бісаў”
  • Bengali: “বাসাউ”
  • Bengali: “বিসাউ”
  • Bishnupriya: “বিস্সাউ”
  • Bosnian: “Bissau”
  • Breton: “Bissau”
  • Bulgarian: “Бисау”
  • Catalan: “Bissau”
  • Cebuano: “Bissau (ulohang dakbayan sa Guinea-Bissau)”
  • Cebuano: “Bissau Region”
  • Cebuano: “Bissau”
  • 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”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيساو”
  • Esperanto: “Bisaŭo”
  • Estonian: “Bissau”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bissau”
  • Finnish: “Bissau”
  • French: “Bissao”
  • French: “Bissau”
  • Fulah: “Bisaawo”
  • Galician: “Bisau”
  • Galician: “Bissau”
  • Georgian: “ბისაუ”
  • German: “Bissau”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bissau”
  • Greek: “Μπισάου”
  • Greek: “Μπισσάου”
  • Guarani: “Mbisáu”
  • Gujarati: “બિસ્સૌ”
  • Haitian: “Biso”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bissau”
  • Hausa: “Bisau”
  • Hebrew: “ביסאו”
  • Hindi: “बिसाउ”
  • Hindi: “बिसाऊ”
  • Hungarian: “Bissau”
  • Icelandic: “Bissá”
  • Icelandic: “Bissaú”
  • Ido: “Bissau”
  • Inari Sami: “Bissau”
  • Indonesian: “Bissau”
  • Interlingua: “Bissau”
  • Interlingue: “Bissau”
  • Irish: “Bissau”
  • Italian: “Bissau”
  • Japanese: “ビサウ”
  • Javanese: “Bissau”
  • Kabiyè: “Pisawo”
  • Kabyle: “Bissau”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಸೌ”
  • Kazakh: “Бисау”
  • Khmer: “ប៊ីសូ”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Biso”
  • Kirghiz: “Бисау”
  • Komering: “Bissau”
  • Kongo: “Bissau”
  • Korean: “비사우”
  • Kotava: “Bissau”
  • Kurdish: “Bissau”
  • Latin: “Bissau”
  • Latin: “Bissavia”
  • Latvian: “Bisava”
  • Ligurian: “Bissau”
  • 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”
  • Maltese: “Bissau”
  • Maori: “Bissau”
  • Marathi: “बिसाउ”
  • Mazanderani: “بیسائو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bissau”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bissau”
  • Minangkabau: “Bissau”
  • Mingrelian: “ბისაუ”
  • Mirandese: “Bissau”
  • Moksha: “Бисау”
  • Mongolian: “Биссау”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بيساو”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߌߛߊߥߏ߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߌ߬ߛߊ߬ߥߏ߫”
  • Newari: “बिसाउ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bissau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bissau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bissau”
  • Norwegian: “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”
  • Sardinian: “Bissau”
  • Scots: “Bissau”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bissau”
  • Serbian: “Бисао”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bissau”
  • Shona: “Bissau”
  • Silesian: “Bissau”
  • Sindhi: “بساؤ”
  • Sinhala: “බිසවු”
  • Slovak: “Bissau”
  • Slovenian: “Bissau”
  • Somali: “Bissau”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیسائو”
  • Spanish: “Bisau”
  • Spanish: “Bisáu”
  • Spanish: “Bissau”
  • Swahili: “Bisau”
  • 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”
  • Zulu: “i-Bissau”
  • “Bissau”

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