Bolama
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".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 10,800 residents
- Description: town of Guinea-Bissau and former capital of Portuguese Guinea
- Also known as: “Bulama” and “Port Beaver”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Paços do Concelho de Bolama and Direcção Regional dos Serviços de Educação de Bolama Bijagós.
Paços do Concelho de Bolama
Public building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Paços do Concelho de Bolama is a public building.
Direcção Regional dos Serviços de Educação de Bolama Bijagós
Public building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Direcção Regional dos Serviços de Educação de Bolama Bijagós is a public building.
Bolama
- Categories: administrative territorial entity and locality
- Location: Bolama and Bijagos, Bijagos Islands, Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
11.5776° or 11° 34′ 40″ northLongitude
-15.4753° or 15° 28′ 31″ westPopulation
10,800Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)United Nations Location Code
GW BOLOpen location code
7C36HGHF+3VOpenStreetMap ID
node 1440998537OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Bolama” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بولاما”
- Asturian: “Bolama”
- Belarusian: “Балама”
- Catalan: “Bolama”
- Cebuano: “Bolama (kapital sa rehiyon)”
- Cebuano: “Bolama”
- Chinese: “博拉马”
- Dutch: “Bolama”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بولاما”
- Finnish: “Bolama”
- French: “Bolama”
- Galician: “Bolama”
- German: “Bolama”
- Hebrew: “בולאמה”
- Italian: “Bolama”
- Japanese: “ボラマ”
- Korean: “볼라마”
- Latin: “Bolama”
- Lithuanian: “Bolama”
- Luxembourgish: “Bolama”
- Moksha: “Болама”
- Northern Frisian: “Bolama”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bolama”
- Norwegian: “Bolama”
- Polish: “Bolama (wyspa)”
- Polish: “Bolama”
- Portuguese: “Bolama”
- Romanian: “Bolama”
- Romanian: “Insula Bolama”
- Russian: “Болама”
- Spanish: “Bolama”
- Swedish: “Bolama”
- Ukrainian: “Болама”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Bolama”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.