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Guinea-Bissau (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 12 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 12.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 015 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -15.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises archipelago and mainland marshy area; had agricultural settlements by 13th century; became tributary of Mali empire; Portuguese arrived in 1446; center in slave trade 17-18th centuries; rival claims of Portuguese, British, and French settled 19th-20th centuries; official language is Portuguese, though Criolo and numerous African languages are also spoken. |
Names: |
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| Guiné-Bissau (preferred,C,V,Vietnamese)
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| Guiné-Bissau (Portuguese-P,U,N)
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| Républica da Guiné-Bissau (C,V,O,Portuguese,U,N)
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| Guinea-Bissau (C,O,English-P,U,B)
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............ | since 1974 |
| Guinea-Bissau (Indonesian)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Guinea-Bissau (Danish)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Guinea-Bissau (Finnish)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Swedish)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Romanian)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Slovak)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Spanish-P,U,B)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Aragonese)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Welsh)
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| Guinea-Bissau (German)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Low German)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Czech)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Galician)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Italian)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Estonian)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Greenlandic)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Guinea-Bissau (Romansh)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Guinea-Bissau (North Ndebele)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Norwegian)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Pampanga)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Northern Sami)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Shona)
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| Guinea-Bissau (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Republic of Guinea-Bissau (C,O,English,U,N)
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| Guinée-Bissau (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| République de Guinée-Bissau (C,O,French,U,N)
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| Гвинея-Бисау (C,O,Bulgarian)
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| Гвинея-Бисау (Russian-P,U)
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| Республика Гвинея-Бисау (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 几内亚比绍 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 几内亚比绍共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| غ اًَِ - ب سُاو (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً غ اًَِ - ب سُاو (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| GNB (C,O,ISO3L)
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| GW (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO624 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| PU (C,O,FIPS)
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| Guinean (Guinea-Bissauan) (C,O,English,U,A)
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| Guinea-Bissauan (C,O,English,U,A)
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| An Ghuine-Bhissau (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Bisau Gvinėja (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Bissau-Guinea (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Ghi-nê Bít-xao (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Ghi-nê Bít xao (Guinea-Bissau) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Ginɛbisau (C,U,Lingala)
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| Gínea-Bissá (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Ginea-Bissau (C,U,Tagalog)
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| Ginea-Bissau (Basque)
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| Ginea-Bissau (Breton)
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| Ginea Bissau (C,U,Basque)
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| Ginea-Bissaw (C,U,Maltese)
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| Gine-Bisaawo (C,U,Fulah)
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| Giné-Bisao (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Giné-Bisau (C,U,Tetum)
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| Ginebisau (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Ginebisau (Swahili (generic))
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| Gine Bisawo (C,U,Bambara)
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| Gine-Biso (C,U,Turkish)
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| Gine-Biso (Fulah)
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| Gine-Bissau (C,U,Turkish)
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| Gine Bissau (C,U,Turkish)
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| Gîne-Bissau (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Gineya Bisawu (C,U,Rundi)
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| Gineyän-Bisauän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Gini-Bisaaw (C,U,Somali)
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| Gini-Bisao nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Gini Bisau (C,U,Hausa)
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| Gini Bisaw (C,U,Akan)
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| Gini-Bisawu (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Gini-Bitau (C,U,Nauruan)
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| Gninëe-Bisau (C,U,Sangho)
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| Guinea Bisau (C,U,Albanian)
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| Guinea Bisau (Swahili (generic))
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| Guinea Bisau (Ido)
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| Guinea-Bisáu (C,U,Asturian)
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| Guinea-Bisau (C,U,Galician)
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| Guinea Bissau (C,U,Indonesian)
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| Guinea Bissau (Catalan)
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| Guinea Bissau (Faroese)
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| Guinea Bissau (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Guinèa Bissau (C,U,Occitan)
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| Guinea-Bissáu (C,U,Spanish)
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| Guinea Bissaviensis (C,U,Latin)
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| Guine Bisau (C,U,Albanian)
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| Guinê-Bissaou (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Guiné Bissau (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Guineea-Bissau (C,U,Romanian)
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| Guinée Bissao (C,U)
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| Guinee-Bissau (C,U,Dutch)
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| Guinee-Bissau (Afrikaans)
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| Guiné Portuguesa (C,U)
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| Gvineja-Bisao (C,U,Bosnian)
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| Gvineja-Bisau (C,U,Bosnian)
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| Gvineja Bisau (C,U,Croatian)
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| Gvineja-Bisava (C,U,Latvian)
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| Gvineja Bissau (C,U,Slovene)
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| Gvineo Bisaŭa (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Gvineo-Bisaŭo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Gwinea Bissau (C,U,Polish)
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| Gyni-Bissaw (C,U,Cornish)
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| i-Guinea-Bissau (C,U,Zulu)
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| Kini-Pisau (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Nginebisau (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Orílẹ́ède Gene-Busau (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Província da Guiné (C,U)
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| Qvineya-Bisau (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| República da Guiné-Bissau (C,U,Portuguese)
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| ګوينې بېساو (C,U,Pashto)
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| ກິວນີ-ບິສໂຊ (C,U,Lao)
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| ギニアビサウ (C,U,Japanese)
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| गीनी-बिसाउ (C,U,Hindi)
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| கினி-பிஸ்ஸாவ் (C,U,Tamil)
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| غينيا بيساو (C,U,Arabic)
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| ហ្គីណេប៊ីសូ (C,U,Khmer)
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| ቢሳዎ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ቢሳዎ (Amharic)
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| Гвинея-Биссау (C,U,Russian)
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| გვინეა-ბისაუ (C,U,Georgian)
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| Гвинеја Бисао (C,U,Serbian)
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| ประเทศกินี-บิสเซา (C,U,Thai)
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| گینهٔ بیسائو (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| Гвінея-Біссау (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| ጊኔ-ቢሳው (C,U,Amharic)
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| Գվինեա-Բիսաու (C,U,Armenian)
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| גיניאה-ביסאו (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Гвинеја-Бисао (C,U,Serbian)
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| Гвинеја-Бисао (Macedonian)
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| גינאה ביסאו (C,U,Hebrew )
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| 기네비쏘 (C,U,Korean)
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| กินี-บิสเซา (C,U,Thai)
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| 幾內亞比索 (C,U,Chinese)
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| گۋىنېيە بىسسائۇ (C,U,Uyghur)
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| گینه بیسائو (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| Гвинея Бисау (C,U,Tajik)
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| Гвинея Бисау (Bulgarian)
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| Γουινέα-Μπισσάου (C,U,Greek)
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| Γουινέα-Μπισάου (C,U,Greek)
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| Ґвінея-Бісау (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| 기니비사우 (C,U,Korean)
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| Гвинеа-Биса (C,U,Macedonian)
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| گینێ بیساو (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Гвінея-Бісау (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| ഗിനി-ബിസോ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ギニアビサウ共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| 기네비소 (C,U,Korean)
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| گوینیا-بیساو (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| Гвинеа-Бисау (C,U,Serbian)
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| ಗಿನಿ-ಬಿಸ್ಸಾವ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| గినియా-బిస్సావ్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| गिनी-बिसाउ (C,U,Marathi)
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| गिनी-बिसाउ (Nepali)
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| གྷི་ནི་ཡ་བིས྄་སོ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| गिनी-बिसाऊ (C,U,Hindi)
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| กินีบิสเซา (C,U,Thai)
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| גינאה־ביסאו (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Гвінея-Бісаў (C,U,Belarusian)
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| گنی بساؤ (C,U,Urdu)
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| গিনি-বিসাউ (C,U,Bengali)
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| ଗୁଇନିଆ-ବିସାଉ (C,U,Odia)
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| ગિની-બિસાઉ (C,U,Gujarati)
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| Guiné (H,V)
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| Portuguese Guinea (H,O)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence in 1974 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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Portuguese, 15th-20th centuries |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Bissau .......... (inhabited place) |
| .................. |
(World, Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Bissau) [1092319] |
| historical connection .... |
Kaabu .......... (former nation/state/empire) |
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(World, Africa) [8698191] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1974 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Ghi-nê Bít xao (Guinea-Bissau).......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 2372248 |
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