Bissandugu
Bissandugu is a city in southwestern Guinea on National Road 1. In the 19th century, it was the base for Samori Ture, a Dyula warlord who named the city in 1878 as the capital of his Wassoulou Empire.Photo: Lancine.kounfantoh.fofana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bissandugu
- Type: Village with 1,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kankan, Kankan Region, Guinea, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
9.93684° or 9° 56′ 13″ northLongitude
-9.15081° or 9° 9′ 3″ westPopulation
1,000Open location code
6CXGWRPX+PMOpenStreetMap ID
node 4311116314OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q866634
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Bissandugu” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Bissandougou”
- Chinese: “比桑杜古”
- Dutch: “Bissandugu”
- Finnish: “Bissandougou”
- French: “Bissandougou”
- German: “Bissandougou”
- Irish: “Bissandugu”
- N'Ko: “ߓߌ߬ߛߊ߲߬ߘߎ߰”
- Portuguese: “Bissandugu”
- Russian: “Биссандугу”
- Spanish: “Bissandugu”
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Notable Places Nearby
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