Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau (officially Republic of Guinea-Bissau) is a country in Western Africa, with its capital at Bissau, and is home to roughly 2.2M people.
Its official languages are Portuguese, Upper Guinea Creole; the currency in circulation is West African CFA franc (Fr); people from here are called Guinea-Bissauan.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »The Bijagós archipelago of some 88 islands lies off the coast, most of them uninhabited.
> BORDERS_
Guinea-Bissau touches two neighbours: Guinea to the east and Senegal to the north. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Bissau became the capital in 1941, replacing Bolama, and its old colonial quarter still shows Portuguese street plans.
> SCALE_
32,034 km² (12,368 sq mi), 137th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Moldova.
Population 2,201,352, 146th of 198 on file. That averages 69 per km² (178 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
The black star of African freedom on red, with the pan-African yellow and green, closely modelled on Ghana's.