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".
- Town with about 5,030 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 30 metres (80 feet)
- Description: town of Guinea-Bissau and former capital of Portuguese Guinea
- Also known as“Bulama”“Port Beaver”
Places of Interest
Discover Paços do Concelho de Bolama and Hospital Militar e Civil de Bolama.
Paços do Concelho de Bolama
Paços do Concelho de Bolama is a public building.
Direcção Regional dos Serviços de Educação de Bolama Bijagós
Direcção Regional dos Serviços de Educação de Bolama Bijagós is a public building.
Bolama
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Latitude
11.5776° or 11° 34′ 40″ north
Longitude
-15.4753° or 15° 28′ 31″ west
UN/LOCODE
GW BOL
Open location code
7C36HGHF+3V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Bolama” goes by many names.
بولاماArabic
BolamaAsturian
БаламаBelarusian
BolamaCatalan
BolamaCebuano
Bolama (kapital sa rehiyon)Cebuano
博拉马Chinese
BolamaDanish
Bolama (by)Danish
BolamaDutch
بولاماEgyptian Arabic
BolamaFinnish
BolamaGalician
בולאמהHebrew
BolamaItalian
ボラマJapanese
볼라마Korean
BolamaLatin
BolamaLithuanian
BolamaLuxembourgish
БоламаMoksha
BolamaNorthern Frisian
BolamaNorwegian
BolamaNorwegian Bokmål
BolamaPolish
Bolama (wyspa)Polish
BolamaRomanian
Insula BolamaRomanian
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Localities in the Area
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