Countries

Guinea-Bissau

Also Known As Republic of Guinea-Bissau

Citation Formats

General Reference

Geography Atlas. "Guinea-Bissau." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/countries/guinea-bissau.

APA Style

Geography Atlas. (n.d.). Guinea-Bissau. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/countries/guinea-bissau

BibTeX

@misc{geographyatlas-guinea-bissau,
  author = {Geography Atlas},
  title = {Guinea-Bissau},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/countries/guinea-bissau},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Guinea-Bissau is a country on the Atlantic coast of West Africa, bordered by Senegal to the north and Guinea to the southeast, with low coastal plains and mangroves rising to a forest-savanna mosaic inland and the Bijagos Archipelago of eighty-eight islands off its coast. It unilaterally declared independence from Portugal on 24 September 1973, formally recognized on 10 September 1974. It is a unitary semi-presidential republic. Its capital is Bissau.

Facts

Capital

Bissau 1

Population

2,080,000 1

2023 estimate, from Guinea-Bissau's own Wikipedia infobox; rounded to the nearest ten thousand.

Population Estimate Year

2023 1

Area (sq km)

36,125 1

Independence or Founding Year

1974 1

Guinea-Bissau unilaterally declared independence from Portugal on 24 September 1973; independence was formally recognized by Portugal on 10 September 1974.

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