Bijagos Islands
The Bissagos Islands, also spelled Bijagós, are a group of about 88 islands and islets located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Guinea-Bissau. The archipelago was formed from the ancient delta of the Geba and Grande de Buba rivers and spans an area of 12,958 km2.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
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Bolama
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bolama is a city on Bolama Island in the Bijagos Islands of Guinea-Bissau.
Bijagos Islands
- Type: Island
- Description: archipelago in Guinea-Bissau
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Bolama and Bijagos, Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
11.25° or 11° 15' northLongitude
-16.0833° or 16° 5' westOpen Location Code
7C357W28+2MGeoNames ID
2374876Wikidata ID
Q664687Bijagos Islands Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Armenian: Բիժագոշ
- Azerbaijani: Bijaqoş
- Belarusian: Біжагош
- Bulgarian: Бижагош
- Catalan: Arxipèlag dels Bijagós
- Catalan: arxipèlag dels Bijagós
- Cebuano: Arquipélago dos Bijagós
- Chinese: 比熱戈斯群島
- Czech: Bijagós
- Czech: Bisagos
- Czech: Bissagos
- Czech: Bissagoské ostrovy
- Czech: ostrovy Bisagos
- Danish: Bissagosøerne
- Dutch: Bissagoseilanden
- English: Bijagós Islands
- English: Bijouga Islands
- English: Bissagos
- English: Bissagos Islands
- Estonian: Bijagósi saared
- Finnish: Bissagos-saaret
- French: Archipel des Bijagos
- French: archipel des Bijagos
- French: archipel des Bissagos
- German: Bissagos-Archipel
- Hebrew: איי ביז'אגוש
- Hungarian: Bijagós-szigetek
- Italian: Isole Bijagos
- Japanese: ビジャゴ諸島
- Latin: Archipelagus Bissagosensis
- Lithuanian: Bižagošo salos
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Bijagós-øyane
- Polish: Bijagós
- Portuguese: Arquipélago dos Bijagós
- Romanian: Arhipelagul Bijagós
- Russian: Бижагош
- Slovak: Bijagóske ostrovy
- Spanish: Islas Bijagos
- Spanish: Islas Bijagós
- Swedish: Bijagosöarna
- Ukrainian: Бижагош
- Vietnamese: Quần đảo Bissagos
- Historic: Bijouga
- Arquipelago dos Bijagos
- Bijagóz
- Bissagossaaret
- Біжаґош
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Bijagos Islands. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.