Bissau
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- proper noun
- Cocaine seized by Guinea-Bissau's judicial police in the capital Bissau on March 21 is displayed for journalists.
- Guinea-Bissau
Examples
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Cocaine seized by Guinea-Bissau's judicial police in the capital Bissau on March 21 is displayed for journalists.
Blog text (14) -
Their analysis includes a total of 45 Muslim-majority countries without providing data for Brunei, Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, and Kosovo.
Academic text (2014) -
Only the German occupation of Togoland, along with the Portuguese control of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands, remained beyond their reach.
Academic text (2009) -
Previous classifications have shown the relationship between languages spoken in coastal Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.
Academic text (2004) -
As members of a youth organization called the "Culture Development Club," young men of the Manjaco ethnic group in Guinea-Bissau respond to and try to manage what they perceive to be community collapse in the face of endemic demographic decline.
Academic text (2000) -
In addition to analyzing the samples collected in The Gambia, we reanalyzed spoligotypes from published studies from Guinea-Bissau (6).
Academic text (2013) -
Sadly, however, only two countries in West Africa have become party to the agreement: the Gambia and Gabon (while Guinea Bissau is yet to deposit its ratification), forming part of the group of only six countries out of 54 on the African continent that have signed up to this agreement.
Academic text (2017) -
But let me very briefly discuss the isolated conflicts of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, Benin and Togo, and Senegal and The Gambia.
Academic text (1990) -
For cost-saving or security reasons, the United States closed its embassies in Guinea-Bissau, Seychelles, and Comoro Islands, while China pointedly maintained its embassies in all three countries.
Academic text (2009) -
During my trip to Guinea-Bissau, I visited the vibrant capital city, Bissau.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bissau comes from a local name used by the people of the area before the Portuguese arrived, so it has long been the name of the town by the sea. A helpful way to remember it is that Bissau is also the part of the country name 'Guinea-Bissau', so the city's name points to that place on the West African coast.