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.
- »The Bijagós archipelago of some 88 islands lies off the coast, most of them uninhabited.
Guinea-Bissau touches two neighbours: Guinea to the east and Senegal to the north. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Bissau became the capital in 1941, replacing Bolama, and its old colonial quarter still shows Portuguese street plans.
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 black star of African freedom on red, with the pan-African yellow and green, closely modelled on Ghana's.