Population is about 1,920,922 people, the 151st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 3,996 of everyone alive.
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Guinea-Bissau
Republic of Guinea-Bissau ยท Guinรฉ-Bissau
Africa
ยท Western Africa
0Population
36.13Kkmยฒ of land
$697GDP / person
BissauCapital
- ISO codes
- GW ยท GNB
- Density
- 53 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Portuguese, Upper Guinea Creole
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Dial code
- +245
- Internet domain
- .gw
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 12.1640ยฐ N, 14.5240ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Guinea-Bissauan
- UN region
- Western Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $1.34B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How Guinea-Bissau stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
151st
of 242 ยท 0.03% of world population
Land area
138th
of 242 ยท 0.02% of world land
GDP per person
224th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
150th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Guinea-Bissau
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 36,125 kmยฒ, making it the 138th largest country here - about 3.9 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 53 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Bissau, at 11.87ยฐ N, 15.60ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 403,339.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Guinea and Senegal.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Bissau.
The currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, symbol Fr).
Has 2 official languages: Portuguese and Upper Guinea Creole.
Dials on +245 and uses the .gw internet domain.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Bissau
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UTC+00:00
Cities
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Bissau
Bissau
11.8650ยฐ N, 15.5984ยฐ W
403.34K
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Guinea-Bissau.